Daily Telegraph can’t call ‘Witness X’ at Geoffrey Rush trial
Ashurst 2018-11-06 3:07 pm By Miklos Bolza | Sydney
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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”.

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