 Judy Davis: Wins extra $8K over Australia libel
On Friday Hollywood star Judy Davis has been awarded 10,000 dollars (8,008 US) in interest thereby swelling up to 150,000 dollars. In fact it was a libel payout over an article that, according to her, is "heartless" towards children.
Sources have thrown more light on the news of Judy Davis. As per their reports the Australian judge awarded the double Oscar-winning actress an additional payment on damages of 140,000 dollars that she won in the month of July against a popular newspaper of United States.
New South Wales Supreme Court judge Peter McClellan has given the order that the extra payout after the two sides disagreed on the amount of interest that she should receive. This is as per the report of the Australian Associated Press.
The judge also has given the order to Nationwide News, the newspaper's publisher, to pay Davis's legal costs that are estimated on an "indemnity basis," which is much more favorable than the standard basis when all outlays may not be reimbursed.
In the month of May a jury has found that fifty three year old Judy Davis was defamed by the article and also ruled out that Nationwide News was actuated by malice in its publication.
The judge has published the award in the month of July for the "inevitable" damage to her reputation that the article that was published in February, has caused.
The case centered on stories about the appearance of Judy Davis at a community meeting about plans to floodlight a sports field near her home in Sydney.
The star of films such as "A Passage to India" said in evidence that the accounts of her appearance at the meeting to discuss lighting to allow junior soccer teams to train at night portrayed her as a child-hater.
Davis said that she has asked the meeting to consider the danger that misfired soccer balls could pose to residents and suggested that a nearby park could be used as an alternative venue.
The jury later found that the article implied that she was "heartless" and "indifferent to the risk of injury to hundreds of young children."
Judy Davis has won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Judy Garland in the 2001 television movie "Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows."
Judy Davis is famous for her roles in Woody Allen's "Husbands and Wives" and David Lean's "A Passage to India." |
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