Jump to full article: The Age (au), 2007-02-23
Author: KENNETH NGUYEN
Intro: A JUDGE who represented British American Tobacco while he was a barrister has agreed to disqualify himself from presiding over an inquiry into alleged iniquity by the tobacco group.
NSW Supreme Court judge Paul Brereton was to hear a case pitting tobacco group BAT against law firm Slater & Gordon and members of the Fairfax group (owner of The Age).
BAT wants to stop Slater & Gordon from using a leaked report by the tobacco group's former lawyers, Clayton Utz, to reopen the Rolah McCabe case.
The Sunday Age has published excerpts of the report.
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