Geoffrey Rush case: Daily Telegraph and Nationwide News lose defamation appeal against actor

Actor to be awarded full $2.9m in damages after judges reject all publisher’s grounds of appeal, including for a retrial

The Daily Telegraph will have to pay actor Geoffrey Rush a record $2.9m in damages after it lost its appeal against a historic defamation ruling.

The Sydney newspaper, and publisher Nationwide News, had challenged a federal court decision from April 2019 that found claims conveyed in two of its news articles from 2017 that the Oscar winner had behaved inappropriately towards a colleague were not credible.

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