Damage to Sarah Hanson-Young’s reputation just the ‘cut and thrust of politics’, Full Court told
Appeals 2020-05-11 6:49 pm By Alison Eveleigh | Sydney
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Politicians are “rarely nice to each other” and go out of their way to harm the reputation of others, a lawyer for former Senator David Leyonhjelm has told the Full Court in appealing a $120,000 damages bill for defamatory comments he was found to have made about Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young.

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