CASA’s massive legal firepower was extremely obvious this week, with them being represented by a very experienced external barrister Ian Harvey QC. They are throwing everything they’ve got at this case and it continues to be a “Might” versus “Right” battle.
Ian Harvey is no external barrister, but the person who has instructed and trained casa legal since at least 1999, the furtherest I have traced him so far.
The following quote indicates the distance that casa will go to stop proper investigations and progress that would not be in their interest.
CASA kept ACCC out of the Mobil case
An approach by several operators to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) met with a negative response as the ACCC could only act when [the] lead agency CASA requested such assistance. CASA inaction thus obstructed vital legal assistance under the
Trade Practices Act 1974.
I wonder who gave that advice to casa legal??