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DARK SECRETS: Doctor wins appeal over chelmsford claims | Rare Historical Photos

Steve Cannane was sued over Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story of Scientology in Australia. (AAP)

A doctor who worked at Sydney's notorious Chelmsford hospital has won a court appeal against HarperCollins and a high profile journalist over allegedly defamatory claims made in a book about Scientology in Australia.

John Gill and John Herron, who died in February, launched the Federal Court appeal after last year losing a defamation action over claims made in Steve Cannane's 2016 book Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story of Scientology in Australia.

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