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Nightclub owner's costly decision to knock back $80,000

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Former Brisbane nightclub owner Tony Bellino will be ruing his decision to knock back an $80,000 offer from The Courier Mail to settle a defamation case with the newspaper.

Justice Geoffrey Flick revealed on Thursday that it came after Bellino took offence to a story in 2017 that marked 30 years since the landmark Fitzgerald inquiry into police corruption.

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Michael Pelly is the legal editor, based in our Sydney newsroom. He has been a senior adviser to federal and state attorneys-general and written two books, one a biography of former High Court Chief Justice Murray Gleeson. Email Michael at michael.pelly@afr.com
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