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Christian Porter has failed to prevent a detailed account of a meeting being admitted into evidence in a case about whether his barrister in his defamation case against the ABC must stop acting for him.
Mr Porter s lawyer argued that his defamation case would go off the rails if the evidence from a Macquarie Group executive was received.
Federal Court judge Tom Thawley today determined the evidence was central to the case about whether defamation specialist Sue Chrysanthou SC has a conflict of interest.
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There is a public interest in Mr Porter s case against the ABC and journalist Louise Milligan being seen to be conducted in the proper way, he ruled on Monday afternoon.
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Two leading barristers warned against Sue Chrysanthou working for Christian Porter in his defamation action against the ABC, which has now resulted in legal action attempting to remove her from representing the former Attorney-General.
Defamation barrister Matthew Richardson, a friend of Ms Chrysanthou, advised her to return the brief from Mr Porter because she had attended a meeting with Jo Dyer, a friend of the woman who accused Mr Porter of raping her in 1988, and allegedly obtained confidential information.
Sue Chrysanthou, SC, arrives at the Federal Court on Monday.Â
Kate Geraghty
Separately, Nicholas Owens, SC, was engaged by a solicitor acting for Ms Dyer and formed an opinion that she had a conflict.
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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.
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Christian Porterâs high-profile barrister has âconfidentialâ information that would give her an insight into the âstrengths, weaknesses, honesty, knowledge and beliefsâ of one of the ABCâs witnesses in its defamation defence against the former attorney-general, documents submitted to the federal court claim.
Ahead of next weekâs hearing into whether defamation specialist Sue Chrysanthou SC can be blocked from acting for Porter in his high-stakes case against the ABC, a swathe of documents published by the federal court on Friday laid out the case against the silk by a close friend of the woman who accused Porter of raping her three decades ago.