Former MP Mark Latham has agreed to settle a defamation case brought against him by the political editor of pop culture site Junkee, and he could be on the hook for a $100,000 payout.
The judge overseeing Geoffrey Rush’s defamation trial interjected in Nationwide News’ closing submissions on Wednesday, expressing doubt about the publisher’s interpretation of evidence — including a text message with a tongue emoji Rush sent to his accuser — said to back its defence in the case.
The Daily Telegraph publisher Nationwide News has lost a bid to amend its defence in Geoffrey Rush’s defamation case to include evidence from an unnamed witness it claimed would support the imputation that Rush engaged in sexual misconduct, with the judge saying the prejudice to Rush would be “manifest and palpable”.
A Federal Court judge has been asked to recuse himself from a legal dispute between Norton Rose Fulbright and a former employment partner who was terminated from the firm.
Private education provider Ashley Services may be close to settling a shareholder class action, according to a court order sending the parties in the case to a second mediation session before the end of the year.
Actor Geoffrey Rush is seeking to suppress an amended defence by Nationwide News, arguing that if they’re made public the amendments could cause him “irreparable harm”.
Geoffrey Rush’s co-star Eryn Jean Norvill took the stand Tuesday in the actor’s defamation case against Nationwide News, telling a court she felt “panicked” and “trapped” by Rush’s allegedly inappropriate behaviour during a production of King Lear at the Sydney Theatre Company.
Nationwide News says two expert reports written by a friend and agent of actor Geoffrey Rush should be thrown out because the two are advocates for Rush, as the first week in the closely watched defamation trial wrapped up.
Fundraising company Appco Group has dropped its appeal of a judge’s decision to let an $85 million wage case against it move forward as a class action.
The director of the King Lear production at the centre of a defamation case brought by Geoffrey Rush said on the witness stand Thursday he never told the actor his behaviour toward co-star Eyrn Jean Norvill had become “creepy”.