Australian actor Judy Davis is to receive an extra $10,000 (£4,500) in her defamation action against the Sydney Daily Telegraph. It means that the paper's publishers, Nationwide News - a Rupert Murdoch company – must now pay her a total of $151,000 (£69,000). I reported the original award here. (Via The Australian/AAP)

Australian actor Judy Davis has been awarded A$140,000 (£68,000) in damages in a defamation suit against the Sydney Daily Telegraph. Last month a jury decided that three items published by the paper in February 2006 about her opposition to floodlights being erected in a children's park near her home were malicious.

Actor Judy Davis has won a defamation action against the Sydney Daily Telegraph after a four-week trial. A jury decided that three items published in February 2006 maliciously implied she was an unreasonable, child-hating hypocrite. The stories concerned her opposition to floodlights being erected at a children's park near her home. Damages will be decided later. (Via The Australian)

Judy Davis, the film actor, has told an Australian court that articles in a Sydney newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, suggested she hates children. She is suing the paper's owner, a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, for defamation over articles published in February 2006 about her opposition to a local council plan to install floodlights for children's soccer training at a park near her Sydney home. The hearing is continuing. (Via Google/AP)