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This $25k-a-hearing barrister is happy to be losing money

Michael Pelly

The High Court will drastically cut back the number of special leave hearings that help sort out which cases it takes on, and the barrister who makes a fortune out of them is delighted.

In a significant procedural move, the court has announced it will scrap monthly special leave days from the court calendar and decide almost all applications behind closed doors.

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Michael Pelly was The Australian Financial Review’s legal editor

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