Lawyer loses sexual harassment appeal after urging court to just think of him as ‘Mr Darcy’

Appeals 2020-07-27 11:07 pm By Christine Caulfield | Melbourne

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A lawyer who argued his conduct towards a paralegal was not sexual harassment but a display of ardent affection akin to ‘Mr Darcy’ in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ has lost his appeal of a $170,000 judgment against him, with the Full Federal Court saying the case was “as far from a Jane Austen novel as it is possible to be”.

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