Judy Davis Makes Some Tidy Cash After Winning Defamation Case Against Nationwide News

Now that we all know Ernie Dingo doesn’t eat babies (or, possibly, that he has something to hide and his closet contains some baby eating-related skeletons), we can take the time to learn something else today.

You see, the Supreme Court has ruled in Judy Davis’ favour in her defamation case against the Daily Telegraph, and it’s now official – Judy Davis doesn’t hate children! Or at least, not enough to want them injured due to lack of lighting at Birchgrove Oval!

The actress Judy Davis has been awarded more than $150,000 in damages including interest over defamatory newspaper articles, in a Supreme Court judgement today that took into account her continuing hurt and anguish.

The newspapers reported that Davis had lobbied against a proposal to upgrade lighting at Birchgrove Oval to make the area safer for children, in articles a jury later found implied she was “heartless” and “indifferent to the risk of injury to hundreds of young children”.

HEARTLESS WENCH! Oh wait, it wasn’t actually true.

(Justice McClellan) took into account the hurt she continued to suffer after the articles were published, the newspaper’s failure to apologise and the fact that during the defamation trial, the newspaper’s counsel again offended the actor by asking whether her husband had taken out an apprehended violence order against her.

Classy work in regards to that last bit, Nationwide News.

MORE: Judy Davis awarded $150,000 damages (smh.com.au)