NSW: Solicitor says Channel 7 programs defamed him = 2

AAP General News (Australia)
02-23-1999
NSW: Solicitor says Channel 7 programs defamed him = 2

The programs - which were played in court - described Mr Marsden as a millionaire with
friends in high places who had been on the NSW Police Board and head of the NSW Law Society
and Council for Civil Liberties.

Mr Nicholas submitted the jury would find Today Tonight only conveyed Mr Marsden had sex
with boys under 18, while Witness only conveyed that he had sex with 15 year old boys.

But Mr Barker argued that further meanings were conveyed including:

* that Mr Marsden had sex with boys under 18 knowing they were under 18;

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