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Nino Bucci

Man who said woman ‘won’t get a cent’ ordered to pay $300,000 for defamation by NSW court

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A man who said ‘your scumbag client won’t get one cent’ has been ordered to pay $300,000 in aggravated damages and costs. Photograph: Dave Hunt/AAP

A man who said “your scumbag client won’t get one cent” has been ordered to pay $300,000 in aggravated damages and costs after accusing a family dispute resolution practitioner of supporting paedophiles.

Adam Whittington, a “child recovery agent” who was involved in the 60 Minutes abduction scandal in Lebanon, has been ordered by the New South Wales supreme court to pay Jasmin Newman $160,000 in damages and $147,796 in costs after it found he defamed her in a series of online posts dating back to 2019.

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