Geoffrey Rush defamation trial: judge throws out bid to introduce mystery witness

Judge says Daily Telegraph’s case is a ‘movable feast’ and rules new allegations should be blocked

The Daily Telegraph has been blocked in its eleventh-hour bid to introduce a new witness in its defamation case against the Oscar-winning actor Geoffrey Rush.

On Tuesday the federal court judge Michael Wigney told the court he had decided not to allow the Sydney newspaper to make a change to its legal defence to admit the evidence of “Witness X”.

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