Channel Nine ordered to pay damages over reporting of cavoodle custody battle

Network will pay Oscar’s owner, barrister Gina Edwards, $150,000 after federal court defamation proceedings

Broadcaster Channel Nine has been sent to the doghouse for its “sensationalist” reporting of a custody dispute over an Insta-famous cavoodle from Sydney’s ritzy lower north shore.

The network will have to pay Oscar’s owner, barrister Gina Edwards, $150,000 including in aggravated damages after a hotly defended defamation proceedings in the Federal Court.

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