Jump to full article: The Age (au), 2007-08-16
Author: Leonie Wood
Intro: TOBACCO giant British American Tobacco has agreed to curb its demands for the family of the late Rolah McCabe to pay it more than $2 million until after the Victorian Court of Appeal hears another step in the controversial six-year-old negligence case.
BAT wants to appeal a decision of Justice David Byrne, who last month cleared the way for the McCabe family and law firm Slater & Gordon to use hundreds of confidential BAT documents in a bid to reopen claims against the tobacco company.
The Court of Appeal yesterday made an unusual decision to hear BAT's application for leave to appeal at the same time as it hears the actual appeal. Appeals court judges Alex Chernov and Marcia Neave directed the court registrar to speed up the hearing, to be heard later this year, and make the case a priority.
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