Chris Gayle defeats defamation appeal by publishers despite lawyer going ‘too far’ at trial

Appeals 2019-07-16 4:52 pm By Miklos Bolza | Sydney

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The publishers of the Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Canberra Times have lost an appeal of a $300,000 defamation award to cricketer Chris Gayle, despite the appeals court finding Gayle’s barrister had gone “too far” in his submissions to the jury.

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