Jump to full article: The Australian (au), 2007-02-23
Author: Susannah Moran
Intro: LAW firm Slater & Gordon has succeeded in having a judge disqualify himself from hearing a case relating to the re-opening of the Rolah McCabe tobacco litigation.
NSW Supreme Court judge Paul Brereton said he did not believe he was biased, but he had previously advised British American Tobacco when he was a barrister, and a lay person might think he had a bias. . . .
Slater & Gordon want to re-open the case, by arguing that the Clayton Utz documents reveal an "iniquity" in BATA's document-destruction policy that overcomes the defence of legal professional privilege.
And it wants the matter to be transferred to Victoria.
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