Erin Molan awarded $150,000 in defamation case against Daily Mail | MWhitbourn
Broadcaster Erin Molan has been awarded $150,000 in damages after she had a partial victory in her defamation case against theover an online story she alleged wrongly suggested she was an “arrogant woman of white privilege”.Daily Mail
“Subsequently she did apologise, albeit for what I have found that she actually did, which was to cause offence, not for what she did not do, which was to mock the names of Pacific Islander NRL players,” Bromwich said. He found two related tweets did not convey the single defamatory meaning alleged by Molan’s lawyers, meaning it was not necessary to consider any defences in relation to the tweets.sought to rely on a range of defences in relation to the article, including truth and honest opinion.“went too far, were not careful enough, and made a number of material and defamatory errors”. However, he found that a defence of contextual truth was available in a limited respect to mitigate damages.
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