Gina Rinehart and the Nine Network have reached a confidential settlement regarding the airing of “The House of Hancock.” The TV film’s concluding second part will air on Sunday as originally scheduled but with edits agreed upon by both parties.

On Friday, Rinehart and her legal team were allowed to watch a DVD of the show ahead of its broadcast date. Labelling the show potentially defamatory to Rinehart, they told the NSW Supreme Court that they would need to watch the miniseries and see if it contains false and damaging information. And if so, they would seek an injunction to prevent the episode from airing.

Justice Peter Garling allowed Rinehart to watch the episode in question, agreeing with her lawyer, barrister Tom Blackburn SC, that the show likely would have defamatory allegations against Rinehart. He ordered the Nine Network to hand her over a copy of the series, and told Australia’s richest woman that only she, her senior and junior counsel and a number of solicitors could watch it.

Both Rinehart and the Nine Network have now come to an agreement regarding the matter, which was brought back to the court on Saturday. The settlement was confidential, and only revealed that the parties agreed on certain edits on the episode.

“The parties have reached a settlement the precise terms of which are confidential,” a spokesman for Rinehart’s company Hancock Prospecting said. “I can indicate that Channel Nine has agreed to excise certain scenes, and to include appropriate disclaimers. There will be no further comment at this time.”

“The House of Hancock” tells the story of Rinehart (played by actress Mandy McElhinney) and her relationship with her father, iron ore magnate Lang Hancock, (Sam Neill) and the Filipino maid who drove them apart. In the TV film, Lang is portrayed as a difficult to please father who insults his daughter frequently. Scenes as such were meant to provoke sympathy from viewers for Rinehart. However, according to Rinehart’s camp, the film contains scenes that are “false, grossly distorted or never occurred.”

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