The media group claims the federal treasurer should pay 60% of its legal fees because his lawyers failed to prove the newspaper articles were defamatoryFairfax Media is fighting for Joe Hockey to pay 60% of its legal costs in the “Treasurer for sale” defamation case,arguing the politician’s action has been an “unmitigated catastrophe”.
Although Hockey has already been awarded $200000 for defamatory newsstand posters and tweets about the yarn, Fairfax’s lawyers argued in a Sydney court on Tuesday that the media group had won overall because the claim against the actual newspaper article had been dismissed.
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Source: theguardian.com