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No, but he did represent thalidomide survivors and eventually managed to triple the number of affected people who received payouts.


As well as:

  • Winning compensation for all 566 people suffering from medically acquired HIV/AIDs from an Australian contaminated blood supply.
  • Running the first Australian mass legal challenge to the tort immunity claimed by the Catholic Church and Christian Brothers Orders, on behalf of sex abuse victims.
  • Achieving the first mass settlement against Dow Corning, for women injured by defective breast implants.
  • Acting for the Cancer Council to oppose Big Tobacco’s challenge to the Gillard government’s plain packaging laws; this followed 13 years of litigation against the tobacco industry internationally, leading to law reform in Victoria to prevent abusive corporate destruction of evidence.
  • Achieving a $2 billion settlement for present and future asbestos victims of James Hardie.

He's basically the anti-Carlton.


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