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It is a defamation case that has all the elements – featuring the horse set, an aggrieved lawyer, an editor and her magazine, a former top TVNZ news boss, and almost six years of legal battles.
It all stems from an article that appeared on the Horse & Pony magazine’s website in December 2017.
On one side of the argument is lawyer Kristin Cato, who was found by a jury to have been defamed by the article and awarded damages totalling $240,000. “The impact of…
