Peter Dutton's defamation case in opposition to a refugee advocate has come to an finish after an settlement was struck over authorized prices, following the overturning of a discovering that was initially in favour of the opposition chief.
A discover of discontinuation was filed within the Excessive Court docket on Friday.
Refugee advocate Shane Bazzi in December was ordered to pay Dutton $35,000 in damages and a few of his authorized prices over a now-deleted tweet.
The choose discovered the six-word tweet labelling the then house affairs minister "a rape apologist" was defamatory.
However in Could three Federal Court docket attraction judges allowed Bazzi's attraction, put aside the December order and dismissed the continuing.
The court docket was scheduled to look at whether or not Dutton must pay the authorized prices for Bazzi, who raised cash for his defence utilizing crowdfunding.
O'Brien Solicitors, representing Bazzi, on Monday mentioned an settlement had been struck and there was no want for additional argument.
"This has been a protracted and difficult marketing campaign in opposition to a strong adversary," the regulation agency mentioned in a press release.
Bazzi mentioned folks ought to be capable to fairly criticise politicians with out worry of being sued.
"I'm very relieved that this matter has now been finalised. I'm proud that I fought this case and was vindicated by the Full Court docket of the Federal Court docket," he mentioned.
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