Geoffrey Rush defamation case: newspaper's appeal 'weighs heavily' on actor

Oscar-winner wants appeal against record $2.9m judgment determined as quickly as possible, lawyer tells courtThe Daily Telegraph’s appeal against the record $2.9m judgment against it in the Geoffrey Rush defamation case “weighs heavily” on the Oscar-winning actor, an Australian court has heard.The Sydney tabloid newspaper, through its owner News Corp, is appealing against Justice Michael Wigney’s verdict in the Rush case, citing 16 grounds on which it claims the trial was miscarried and that the judge’s conduct of the case “gave rise to an apprehension of bias”. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

[ The Guardian | 2019-05-27 02:22:30 UTC ]
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Sky falls on Tony Abbott as News Corp columnist urges him to sue for defamation | The Weekly Beast

Sky News UK host calls former Australian PM a ‘homophobic misogynist’. Plus: David Gonski’s remarkable revelation about Rupert Murdoch They may share a name but there is nothing similar about Sky News UK and Sky News Australia, at least where Tony Abbott is concerned.The Australian Sky is wholly... Continue reading at The Guardian

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Judge Sets Tentative Schedule for Internet Archive Copyright Case

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Laurence King rushes Anderson's bike book into autumn list

Laurence King Publishing is rushing Back on Your Bike by Alan Anderson into its autumn 2020 list in anticipation of a post-Covid cycling boom. Continue reading at The Bookseller

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Are Little Free Libraries helping locals survive COVID? L.A. weighs in

With most bookstores and libraries still closed, some are turning to the neighborhood boxes, others avoiding the risk. Jay Duplass is on the fence. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times

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Miranda Devine ‘unusually silent’ over defamation claim brought by Quaden Bayles, court hears

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UK Book Industry: Society of Authors’ Hardship Fund Renews Appeal for Donations

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Taking on the hardest cases — without DNA — and setting the innocent free

Jim McCloskey describes how his faith fueled his work, and how his work tested his faith. Continue reading at The Washington Post

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Alan Dershowitz claims a fictional lawyer defamed him. The implications for novelists are very real.

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Bloomsbury to publish Dalai Lama's climate appeal

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Stephen King novel Later to be released by Hard Case Crime

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Hedge fund to pay $312M for McClatchy newspaper chain

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Trump had superficial, transactional view of Meng extradition case, Bolton tells CBC Radio

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