Australian actor Judy Davis has been awarded A$140,000 (£68,000) in damages in a defamation suit against the Sydney Daily Telegraph. Last month a jury decided that three items published by the paper in February 2006 about her opposition to floodlights being erected in a children's park near her home were malicious.
The judge said he was in "no doubt" the paper - owned by a Rupert Murdoch company - had ridiculed Davis to attract readers. He added: "The accusations that she was unreasonable and selfish and heartless with respect to young children inevitably caused her great anguish." (Via The Australian)
