Google must pay gangland lawyer $40,000 for defamation, court rules

Coral Alden 2020-05-01 5:25 pm By Christine Caulfield | Melbourne

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Google has been ordered to pay Melbourne gangland lawyer George Defteros $40,000 after it was found to have defamed him by publishing a link to an article that implied he had “crossed the already blurred line” between being a criminal solicitor and being a confidant to his underworld clients.

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