Lawyers for Mineral Resources’ beleaguered chief Chris Ellison have argued the court should maintain sweeping gag orders over his now-settled row with a former contracts boss.
Lawyers for Mineral Resources’ beleaguered chief Chris Ellison have argued the Federal Court should maintain sweeping gag orders over documents filed in his now-settled row with a former contracts boss, despite staunch opposition from the media.
During a seven-hour hearing on Tuesday, executive counsel for this masthead Larina Alick told the court the orders sought were futile given the volume of information already in the public domain. Alick pointed out the difficulty faced by media organisations without access to the restricted documents, who could find themselves unknowingly in breach of the orders if the substance of the claims was sourced by other means.
“We’re seeking to fix something that did not find form and, frankly, should never see the light of day. Pigozzo’s lawyer backed Penglis’ submissions, arguing it was not necessary to “slice and dice” the documents sentence by sentence to sort their contents, which he said went well beyond what had been reported publicly.
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