The Daily Mail
He is the high-profile criminal defence lawyer famous for representing sports stars, accused bikies and terror suspects – and she was his intern who just happened to have once been a sex worker.
Now a court stoush between Sydney solicitor Adam Houda and his former intern-turned-Darwin-lawyer Hana Seraphim is set to explode with evidence about racy texts, DNA on a dress and phone sex.
Sexualised messages between Ms Seraphim and Mr Houda emerged last week ahead of a hearing of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal, after a push by the high-profile lawyer to have the case proceed behind closed doors was defeated.
Ms Seraphim had worked at Mr Houda’s Sydney law firm for three weeks under the Legal Internship Program from December 2020 until February 2021, while she was still studying at the University of Wollongong.
Texts Mr Houda sent Ms Seraphim included one where he told her ‘I want to put you in the doggy position’, according to a recent report of a preliminary hearing by the Canterbury-Bankstown Express.
Daily Mail Australia has been told the messages were among thousands sent over a period of months and were sent as part of a consensual ‘sexting’ relationship where she also allegedly sent explicit private messages about ‘f***ing’.
A legal source close to Mr Houda, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the 49-year-old Mr Houda admitted to a flirtatious relationship and phone sex with Ms Seraphim.
But the source stressed that, despite the ‘sexting’ the two had conducted, they never actually had sex, and Mr Houda is expected to strenuously defend his innocence to claims he sexually harassed her.
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