Christian Porter’s high-profile barrister should not have been barred from acting for the former attorney general in his defamation case against the ABC because a close friend of his accuser “wishes him ill”, the federal court has heard.
Almost 12 months after Sue Chrysanthou SC was blocked from acting for Porter in his now abandoned defamation case against the national broadcaster, the full bench of the federal court heard an appeal over the decision on Wednesday.
