A woman who received a legal warning from metoo activist Tracey Spicer's lawyer has hit back, saying Ms Spicer is refusing to take responsibility for potentially outing victims to the media
The bitter fallout from the Australian MeToo movement has intensified, with a lawyer for leading figure Tracey Spicer accusing detractors of making "false and malicious statements" about her client.
After an online backlash, Ms Spicer's lawyer Rebekah Giles, who acted for Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young in her successful defamation action against David Leyonhjelm, said Ms Spicer was entitled to defend herself against "false and malicious statements".
"While that email from Tracey's lawyer may not technically amount to a concerns notice, it was threatening and I was extremely concerned," she said. "It feels like weasel words. For her to be using cynical semantics and legal jargon to spin, minimise, downplay and reframe responsibility tells me she's not sorry and she's learnt absolutely nothing from all of this.
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