News Corp had no first-hand source suggesting Sam Groth’s wife underage at start of relationship, MP’s lawyer tells court

Australia's new privacy laws to be tested as Victorian Liberal MP and wife Brittany Groth sue over Herald Sun articles

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A News Corp journalist had not one piece of information" to suggest the deputy Victorian Liberal leader, Sam Groth, began a relationship with his wife when she was underage, the MP's lawyers have told a court.

In what a federal court judge described as a test case" for Australia's new privacy laws, Groth and his wife, Brittany, are suing the Herald and Weekly Times (HWT), reporter Stephen Drill and the Herald Sun's editor, Sam Weir, over a series of articles published in July.