Former Australian AG and now leader of the house has dirty secrets to hide?
One can only hope he comes to a very sticky end at some point in the future.
Australia Lawyers weekly reports
The former federal attorney-general has again won a legal bid in the Federal Court, this time to restrict two major media outlets from using secret parts of the ABC’s defamation defence for any reason other than the current court proceedings.
Christian Porter and his lawyers have successfully convinced the Federal Court to make an order restricting Nine and News Corp from using three redacted sections in the ABC’s defence and his reply for anything other than the legal proceedings, which the media outlets were provided when they were arguing for its public release.
In making the order, Justice Jayne Jagot said the companies could not use the secret parts of the document other than for the purpose of being heard “in the making of a further or final suppression order or non-publication order”. With the documents removed from the court file, other media and public are also restricted.
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