Wright v McCormack concludes on Day 3 as both sides make closing arguments

The Wright v McCormack trial concluded Wednesday afternoon, with both parties making their closing arguments to Judge Chamberlain, who will now decide whether to accept Dr. Craig Wrights claim that his reputation was or was likely to be seriously harmed by blogger Peter McCormacks tweets.

Catrin Evans QC made the closing submissions for McCormack. She told the judge there are two issues he must decide: whether Peter McCormacks tweets caused or were likely to cause serious harm to the reputation of Dr. Wright, and if so, whether Dr. Wright is entitled to any remedy.

The defenses case is that there is no serious harm flowing from any of the 15 publications Dr. Wright is complaining of. Picking up where she left off in her examination of Dr. Wright on Monday, the focus of the defenses closing submissions was less about McCormacks tweets and more about the credibility of Dr. Wright.

She accused Dr. Wright of attempting to pull the wool over the Courts eyes by claiming that he had been disinvited from conferences as a result of McCormacks tweets. According to the defense, Dr. Wright only abandoned this argument after they had produced evidence which indicated he was either never invited or disinvited based on the merit of his conference submissions.