Federal court ruling expanding defamation case to include Eric Beecher and Will Hayward set to significantly delay trial
. After a concerns notice from Murdoch, Crikey took the article down but it was reinstated on 15 August.
But the court ruled on Monday that the News Corp executive chairman can amend his statement of claim and characterise the original Crikey article and the reposted article as separate publications and sue over both.Justice Michael Wigney ruled in Murdoch’s favour, although he warned it would significantly delay the trial – from March to October – and lengthen it from nine days to three weeks.
Crikey had used the dispute as a subscription driver and had raised a “windfall” of $500,000 for 5,000 new subscriptions in the month of August after publishing the legal letters from Murdoch, Chrysanthou said.
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