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Vanessa Hutley wins appeal against Anthony Cosco
An appeal court has sensationally thrown out a scathing judgment that labelled a Balmain woman a “bully” over a dramatic dispute with her neighbour that was featured on A Current Affair before winding up in court.
Lawyer Vanessa Hutley was ordered to pay builder Anthony Cosco $300,000 in 2019 after a Supreme Court judge found she had defamed him on a 2016 episode of the Nine Network’s current affairs program.
But Justice Stephen Rothman’s judgment, in which he declared “the conduct of everybody seems pathetic”, was overturned by…
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