“We are disappointed with Justice Wigney’s findings, in particular his dismissal of Eryn Jean Norvill’s evidence,” Daily Telegraph editor Ben English said after the court awarded Geoffrey Rush at least $850,000 in damages for defamation.
The Daily Telegraph has expressed disappointment with Judge Michael Wigney’s characterisation of actor Eryn Jean Norvill as an unreliable witness “prone to exaggeration and embellishment”.
Wigney did not believe Norvill’s evidence and said the Daily Telegraph published a “recklessly irresponsible piece of journalism” calculated to damage Rush.
Wigney did not spare the Telegraph or its entertainment journalist Jonathon Moran, who was co-respondent to Rush’s defamation suit.