News Corp’s truth defence thrown out in Geoffrey Rush defamation case

The federal court has ruled that a large part of News Corp’s defence lacks detailThe federal court has thrown out large parts of News Corp’s defence in a defamation case brought against it by the actor Geoffrey Rush on the basis it was deficient and lacked detail.On Tuesday the federal court ruled in favour of Rush’s legal team’s application to have all of News Corp’s truth defence and large portions of its qualified privilege defence struck out.

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