Banksia silk’s refusal to give evidence while seeking to reopen defence ‘inexcusable’, judge says
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 Allan Myers 2021-03-24 4:56 pm By Christine Caulfield Melbourne
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Allowing former senior barrister Norman O’Bryan to reopen his defence in the Banksia class action while “avoiding the witness box” was clearly prejudicial, and futile to boot, a judge has said in his reasons for refusing the silk’s last-minute application.

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