Overview
- The Supreme Court of Victoria heard Monday an application by Luke Sayers to move his estranged wife's defamation suit to the federal family court.
- Justice Andrew Watson briefly closed the hearing and turned off the livestream after concerns about the case drawing intense social media attention.
- Both sides said the case rests on credibility, with Sayers denying he published the explicit X post.
- Sayers says he gave a statutory declaration to AFL legal figures Stephen Meade and Christopher Townshend to defend his interests under qualified privilege.
- Cate Sayers alleges that document defamed her and revealed private medical and sexual details, after a January 2025 post of his penis on his X account tagged a sponsor manager and was quickly deleted.