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Judge considers ‘zipper-mouth’ emoji in Sydney lawyers’ defamation fight – Sydney Morning Herald
Zali Burrows, whose clients have included former Auburn deputy mayor Salim Mehajer, is suing Adam Houda for defamation in the NSW District Court over two Twitter posts.
“An ’emoji’ is a more recent invention, consisting of pictographs of faces, objects and symbols; as the name would suggest, the origin of these pictographs is from use in Japan.”
The tweets at the centre of the case include a May 27 post by Mr Houda, linking to an earlier article in the Herald, which reported a judge’s suggestion that Ms Burrows’ conduct in one case unrelated to Mr Mehajer be referred to the Law Society for potential disciplinary action.
The tweet by lawyer Adam Houda on May 2…
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