Court bid to oust Porter barrister from acting in defamation fight

Jo Dyer, who was a debater with the woman in the late 1980s, filed an urgent application in the Federal Court, seeking an order to restrain defamation barrister Sue Chrysanthou, SC, from acting for Mr Porter on the basis that she previously advised Ms Dyer in a separate matter.AAP

Mr Porter claims the article defamed him in a number of ways, including by suggesting he “brutally raped a 16-year-old girl in 1988”, when he was 17, and this contributed to her taking her own life last year, after she told NSW Police that she did not wish to pursue her complaint. Mr Porter strenuously denies the claims.

Appearing for Ms Chrysanthou, barrister Noel Hutley, SC, said his client “will give evidence that she has in effect no substantive recollection of what is said to have been reported to her” by Ms Dyer. When Justice Thomas Thawley suggested Mr Porter might have separate legal teams for the defamation action and the present action to oust Ms Chrysanthou, Mr Olsen replied: “In an ideal world perhaps, but he’s a private individual and money is a significant consideration”.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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