PNG minister’s defamation award cut after ‘regrettable’ error by judge

Defamation 2023-03-06 5:52 pm | Melbourne
A judge has shaved $80,000 off the damages recently awarded to a Papua New Guinea politician who sued Fairfax Media over a series of articles published in the Australian Financial Review, after finding she wrongly discounted a mitigation defence by the publisher.
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