Deeming alleges Pesutto, who is a defamation lawyer, did not tell his lawyers that senior Liberal David Southwick had a recording of the key meeting.
against the Liberal leader over comments he made about her attending a 2023 rally that was gatecrashed by a group of masked men who performed the Nazi salute.
Today at the start of the trial, Deeming's barrister Sue Chrysanthou SC said Pesutto went on a "campaign of destruction" against her client who had a good reputation before "he tarred her with the Nazi brush". She alleged Pesutto, who is a defamation lawyer, did not tell his lawyers that senior Liberal David Southwick had a recording of the key meeting."Knowing there was a recording and not mention it, not provide it to his lawyers, it's very strange conduct," Chrysanthou told the Federal Court.
Pesutto arrived holding hands with his wife, Betty, along with his barrister Matt Collins KC, who represented Network Ten in the same civil case earlier in the year.
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