There were so many jaw-dropping moments in the closing submissions of counsel assisting Victoria’s royal commission into Crown Resorts on Tuesday that it was hard not to emerge from the 2½-hours of hearings a little punch-drunk.

Within moments of getting to his feet, Adrian Finanzio, SC, had declared Crown unsuitable to hold its Melbourne licence due to “grave, systemic breaches of the law” and “sustained breaches of trust and confidence”.