The judge overseeing Geoffrey Rush’s defamation trial interjected in Nationwide News’ closing submissions on Wednesday, expressing doubt about the publisher’s interpretation of evidence — including a text message with a tongue emoji Rush sent to his accuser — said to back its defence in the case.
The Daily Telegraph publisher Nationwide News has lost a bid to amend its defence in Geoffrey Rush’s defamation case to include evidence from an unnamed witness it claimed would support the imputation that Rush engaged in sexual misconduct, with the judge saying the prejudice to Rush would be “manifest and palpable”.
Billionaire Clive Palmer has succeeded in knocking a second judge off a case brought against him by the liquidators of failed Queensland Nickel, after arguing that a previous ruling disqualified him.
Actor Geoffrey Rush is seeking to suppress an amended defence by Nationwide News, arguing that if they’re made public the amendments could cause him “irreparable harm”.
A month after successfully arguing for the recusal of a state Supreme Court justice from an upcoming trial over the collapse of Queensland Nickel, Clive Palmer is calling for the replacement judge to step down, alleging he too is biased against him.
Geoffrey Rush’s co-star Eryn Jean Norvill took the stand Tuesday in the actor’s defamation case against Nationwide News, telling a court she felt “panicked” and “trapped” by Rush’s allegedly inappropriate behaviour during a production of King Lear at the Sydney Theatre Company.
Nationwide News says two expert reports written by a friend and agent of actor Geoffrey Rush should be thrown out because the two are advocates for Rush, as the first week in the closely watched defamation trial wrapped up.
The director of the King Lear production at the centre of a defamation case brought by Geoffrey Rush said on the witness stand Thursday he never told the actor his behaviour toward co-star Eyrn Jean Norvill had become “creepy”.
Geoffrey Rush was cross-examined at length on Tuesday about the meaning behind a text he sent to colleague Eryn Jean Norvill that included an emoji with its tongue sticking out, during the second day of trial in the defamation case against Nationwide News.
Liquidators for the collapsed Hastie Group will pursue test cases against two construction companies in their legal fight against more than two dozen major builders over tens of millions of dollars in unpaid bills, but an application is looming to halt the proceedings pending the outcome of a High Court challenge.