In the end, Antoinette Lattouf found out she had won her case against the ABC not from the judge who decided in her favour, but from her junior barrister Philip Boncardo.
Boncardo – and all the lawyers for both Lattouf and the ABC – were handed Justice Darryl Rangiah’s written reasons for the judgment at the start of proceedings on Wednesday, as he started speaking to the packed courtroom.