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A Sydney defamation barrister at the centre of a Federal Court battle to stop her acting for federal Liberal minister Christian Porter in his defamation case against the ABC has denied breaching her professional duties by acting for him after previously giving advice for free to a witness in the case.
In a statement filed in the Federal Court ahead of a three-day hearing starting on Monday, Sue Chrysanthou, SC, says she gave advice to Jo Dyer, a friend of the woman who accused Mr Porter of rape, on November 20 last year and on January 27 and 28.
The woman took her own life last year after advising NSW Police that she did not wish to pursue her complaint.