NSW: Restaurant owners lose defamation case against critic

AAP General News (Australia)
12-18-2009
NSW: Restaurant owners lose defamation case against critic

The owners of a now defunct Sydney restaurant have lost their defamation case over
a food critic's bad review.

ALEKSANDRA GACIC .. her sister LJILJANA GACIC and BRANISLAV CIRIC sued publisher John
Fairfax and critic MATTHEW EVANS .. over the 2003 Sydney Morning Herald review of their
restaurant Coco Roco at Sydney's King Street Wharf.

The review referred to unpalatable dishes .. describing the restaurant's overall value
as a shocker and scoring it nine out of 20.

In the NSW Supreme Court today .. Justice IAN HARRISON rejected the defamation case
.. on the grounds of truth and fair comment.

Coco Roco went into administration in March 2004.

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