Last-minute affidavit could 'derail' Christian Porter's defamation case against the ABC, court hears | Christian Porter

First published on Mon 24 May 2021 01.18 EDT
Christian Porter’s lawyers have lost their bid to block a last-minute affidavit from Macquarie Bank managing director James Hooke which the former attorney general’s lawyer’s argued could “derail” his high-stakes defamation bid against the ABC.
Monday is the first of a three-day hearing into whether Porter’s high-profile Sydney barrister, Sue Chrysanthou SC, should be stopped from acting for the former attorney general in his case against the national broadcaster and journalist Louise Milligan.
Jo Dyer, who was a debater with the woman in the late 1980s, claims Chrysanthou has a conflict of interest because of a meeting the two women had late last year in relation to an article in the Australian newspaper by Janet Albrechtsen about a November ABC Four Corners episode Dyer appeared in.

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