Actor Geoffrey Rush has been successful in his defamation lawsuit against News Corp’s Sydney tabloid the Daily Telegraph, after Australian Federal Court Justice Michael Wigney said on Thursday that the Telegraph had not proved its truth defence.
In a lengthy judgement Justice Wigney said that the Telegraph had engaged in a “recklessly irresponsible piece of sensational journalism of the worst kind”, in publishing articles in 2017 that claimed Rush had engaged in inappropriate behaviour while in rehearsals and on stage in a Sydney Theater Company production of King Lear in 2015 and 2016.
In a lengthy judgement Justice Wigney said that the Telegraph had engaged in a “recklessly irresponsible piece of sensational journalism of the worst kind”, in publishing articles in 2017 that claimed Rush had engaged in inappropriate behaviour while in rehearsals and on stage in a Sydney Theater Company production of King Lear in 2015 and 2016.
