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Geoffrey Rush loses bid to prevent News Corp from repeating allegations


Actor Geoffrey Rush, who was awarded $2.9m in his defamation case against Nationwide News, has lost his bid to prevent the newspaper publisher from repeating the substance of its allegations.

Justice Michael Wigney on Wednesday dismissed the application for an injunction preventing the publisher from repeating the meanings found to be conveyed in the defamatory material.

The federal court judge in April found the Daily Telegraph’s publisher and journalist Jonathon Moran were reckless regarding the truth when they reported Rush had been accused of inappropriate behaviour during a Sydney theatre production of King Lear.

The judge said a poster and two articles contained several defamatory meanings – including that Rush was a pervert and a sexual predator – but the publisher had not proved they were true.

In May, Rush was awarded $2.9m for damages plus interest and to account for his past and future economic loss.

The publisher’s barrister, Tom Blackburn SC, had argued the proposed injunctions would have a “chilling effect” on discussion of the case.



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