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Annette Sharp suggested solicitor ‘is too old and deaf and can’t even get to court’, barrister says
Chris Murphy is suing Sydney’s Daily Telegraph and Annette Sharp for defamation. Photograph: David Moir/AAP
Chris Murphy is suing Sydney’s Daily Telegraph and Annette Sharp for defamation. Photograph: David Moir/AAP
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Tue 16 Mar 2021 01.46 EDT
The high-profile Sydney criminal lawyer Chris Murphy was portrayed by a newspaper columnist as being “past it, decrepit and over the hill”, his defamation hearing has been told.
The meaning overwhelmingly conveyed by the Daily Telegraph article was that he could no longer represent the interests of his clients, his barrister, Sue Chrysanthou SC, said in the federal court on Tuesday.
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But now to the courts and a major setback for the Fin Review’s most colourful, controversial and costly columnist:
SARAH HARRIS: … the former boss of a venture capital company, who was called a “feminist cretin”, has been awarded $280,000 in damages in a defamation case.
- Studio 10, Ten Network, 28 January, 2021
Ouch. So, who penned the abusive line?
Yes, the notorious Joe Aston, famous for delivering his column from Los Angeles and for the nasty way in which he can carve up his victims:
ROSS GREENWOOD: He’s been vigorous. He is a no-holds-barred columnist for the Financial Review, he’s probably one of the most read columnists in the Financial Review. But in this case Justice Lee said he’d overstepped, effectively bullying Elaine Stead, who was a director of Blue Sky.
Crown shuffling the deckchairs ahead of Bergin report
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Former judge, Patricia Bergin will hand down her report into Crown Resorts this week. Illustration: John Shakespeare
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Crown Resortsâ tense wait for
Patricia Berginâs verdict on its suitability to operate a Sydney casino is coming to an end: the former judge is set to hand her report to the NSW gaming regulator on Monday.
But it might be another fortnight before the public â and Crown executives â are able to read Berginâs recommendations, given the Independent Liquor and Gaming Regulator wants to consider the findings in private before making the report public.