Journalist in defamation action tells court midwives 'work too hard to be tip-toeing around fathers'

Journalist Brenda Power has told a jury in a High Court defamation action that ‘midwives work too hard to be tip-toeing around fathers with lawyers on speed dial’.

The Sunday Times columnist is being sued, along with the newspaper, by Dubai-based property broker John McCauley over an article she wrote in March 2009 about him filming the birth of his baby daughter.