Jump to full article: The Age (au), 2006-12-24
Author: William Birnbauer
Intro: VICTORIAN police have sought advice from the Office of Public Prosecutions over allegations of document destruction and tainted justice in Rolah McCabe's landmark anti-smoking court case.
And the NSW fraud squad, which is investigating the same allegations, has spoken to McCabe family lawyers Slater & Gordon and The Sunday Age.
The police probe is the fourth into the actions of British American Tobacco Australia Services and its former lawyers, Clayton Utz, in the McCabe case.
Today, The Sunday Age posts on the internet controversial Clayton Utz documents that have sparked three major investigations, including one by the Director of Public Prosecutions over possible criminal charges.
NSW police are investigating allegations under sections of the Crimes Act that make it illegal to destroy anything knowing that it could be required as evidence in a judicial proceeding.
The Victorian Supreme Court found in 2002 that internal British American Tobacco documents had been destroyed, denying justice to lung cancer victim Mrs McCabe.
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