Concluding the legal fight to keep Mr Porter’s Sydney barrister Ms Chrysanthou from his star-studded legal team, the Federal Court has ordered that he pay costs to Jo Dyer, the friend of the woman who accused him of rape and who submitted that her previous lawyer-client relationship with Ms Chrysanthou could advantage him.
Ms Chrysanthou argued that the information she may or may not have learnt from her professional relationship with Ms Dyer was not confidential and could not advantage Mr Porter but was found to be wrong, with the Federal Court ordering that she and Mr Porter’s legal teams pay Ms Dyer’s costs of the proceeding.
