What we learned, Wednesday 12 February
The Antoinette Lattouf v ABC case has wrapped up within the two additional days allocated which must be a relief to everyone involved.
Legal teams for Lattouf and the ABC now have just nine business days to write their closing submissions for Justice Rangiah.
Today we heard from Ben Latimer, director of audio, who is responsible for all the radio stations, podcasts and 500 staff.
Latimer repeatedly asked Fagir to repeat his questions, as Lattouf’s barrister put increasingly complex propositions to him.
He admitted he wasn’t an expert in the ABC’s various rules and regulations as he had only been at the broadcaster for 18 months, and at the relevant time that period was only three months.
Fagir tried, with little success, to bring ABC broadcaster Patricia Karvelas into the frame, asking both Latimer and Simon Melkman if her social media activity breached guidelines.
They both declined to answer.
Earlier Elizabeth Green, Lattouf’s line manager, appeared to back up much of Lattouf’s evidence, including that she may have told Lattouf not to post anything “controversial” or “unbalanced” but that she could post facts from “reputable sources”.
Thanks for following along and we’ll see you on 27 February.
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Closing submissions to be heard at the end of February
Justice Darryl Rangiah gives the parties some instructions on how he would like them to submit their closing arguments and in what order, and he has adjourned the case until 27 and 28 February.
Acknowledging the complexity of the case, he says:
Because of the number of emails and number of moving actors, it is a little difficult to keep track of who said what, when and in what email.
So what I would appreciate is a narrative of the relevant events … preferably with the emails, the relevant emails (and) the relevant extracts actually set out in the written submission, so that I don’t have to find them elsewhere.
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