If Lachlan Murdoch is going to prevail in his defamation battle against small left-wing publisher Crikey, the News Corporation co-chairman will have to make his case to a judge who was previously the subject of an apprehended bias complaint by one of his own Australian newspapers.
Justice Michael Wigney has been assigned to hear the case of Mr Murdoch against Private Media, the publisher of Crikey. In 2019 he found News Corporation-owned The Daily Telegraph had defamed actor Geoffrey Rush.
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Mark Di Stefano is Rear Window columnist, based in the Sydney newsroom. He previously worked at BuzzFeed, the Financial Times and The Information before joining the Financial Review as a media and tech correspondent. Connect with Mark on Twitter. Email Mark at mark.distefano@afr.com
