Geoffrey Rush will pocket his $2.9M in damages, after Nationwide News lost its fight to overturn the actor's defamation win.
The full bench of the Federal Court dismissed the appeal this morning and ordered both sides discuss how much should be paid in court costs.
Last April, Justice Michael Wigney ruled the Daily Telegraph had defamed Mr Rush in its front page world exclusive, which alleged he engaged in inappropriate conduct during the 2015 production of King Lear.
https://twitter.com/KellyFedor/status/1278471759570759680?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwHe found actress Eryn Jean Norvill was an unreliable witness who was "prone to embellishment or exaggeration".
The three Judges on the Full Court accepted the argument that he should not have attached "significance" to positive statements which Ms Norvill made about her co-star while she promoted the production.
But they did not believe a mistake had been made in assessing her overall credit.
"The Judge's assessment of Ms Norvill was based on findings that are not glaringly improbable, contrary to compelling inferences or inconsistent with incontrovertible facts or other uncontested testimony," the judgement read.
The amount awarded to Mr Rush was also deemed as "appropriately high" given the serious nature of what was said about the Oscar winning actor.
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