Fairfax rejected settlement offers with ‘bugger off letters’, Elaine Stead tells court

Defamation 2021-02-04 3:23 pm By Miklos Bolza | Sydney

Venture capitalist Dr Elaine Stead is seeking indemnity costs after being awarded $280,000 in her defamation case against Nine-owned Fairfax, which she accuses of rejecting several settlement offers with “bugger off letters” and engaging in a “petulant campaign” of media coverage post-judgment.