Thread by @Voice4Victoria

We're back for day 2 in the NSW Supreme Court. Watch here:


Commentary thread to follow.

First up is questioning to Kathryn Boyd, who is the Deputy Secretary, General Counsel in the NSW Dept of Premier and Cabinet.

Peter King making me feel like I should have had a bigger coffee this morning..

Worth noting there's no requirement to actually be good at arguing in court to be a lawyer. You can see why it's the ones who are good who make the ridiculous money.
You know like the ones the NSW govt is paying for with a blank cheque courtesy of the bottomless public dollar.

On the flipside the fact the govt is paying for one of the best barristers in the country means they're clearly not interested in taking any chances with a case against them.

Now appreciating why some judges come across as grumpy and blunt if you had to deal with this every single day.

Govt lawyers "this entire cross examination has been pointless". It's honestly really hard to disagree with this.

Onto the next witness, Darius Everett, Acting Assistant Secretary for Fed Dept of Health. Joanna Davidson is the counsel for the Fed govt.
King/Kassam's case is the only one that overlaps state & fed legal challenges in one case so we're up for another round of King questioning..

So this is still going and it really feels like just waiting for Peter King to stop talking.. 🙃

We're done for day 2. King managed to get some decent points across but it was a bit of a mess in terms of any kind of structure. We'll be back on Tuesday at 9am where it will be the opportunity for Clarke, Harkness & Plain to finally speak & the govt side to respond.