Nine ordered to pay more than $1m in legal costs in Joe Aston defamation case

Judge says the AFR should have taken up earlier offer by venture capitalist Elaine Stead to settle for $190,000 in costs

The publisher of the Australian Financial Review and columnist Joe Aston have been ordered to pay legal costs for venture capitalist Dr Elaine Stead, estimated by Nine to amount to more than $1m.

The former managing director of a venture capital firm was awarded damages and aggravated damages of $280,000 last month after Stead won the case brought after the Rear Window columnist called her a “feminist cretin”.

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