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Giles’ drone drama, and Brittany Higgins’ big day · The Front

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  Speaker 1: From the Australian. Here's what's on the front. I'm Claire Harvey.
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  Speaker 1: It's Tuesday, June fourth. The Northern Territory's anti corruption boss
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  Speaker 1: is embroiled in a personal drama, with The Australian revealing
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  Speaker 1: today Michael Rich's lawyers offered his wife twenty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: as a settlement after she applied for a domestic violence
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  Speaker 1: order against him. Mister Riches had made no admissions and
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  Speaker 1: denies any wrongdoing. You can read that story right now
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  Speaker 1: at the Australian dot Com dot u. Later in today's episode,
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  Speaker 1: a very unusual guest at the wedding of Brittany Higgins
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  Speaker 1: and David Charraz plus all the latest in a case
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  Speaker 1: that just keeps rolling. First up today, the immigration disaster
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  Speaker 1: engulfing the federal government is getting worse. The latest embarrassing
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  Speaker 1: admission from the minister and why the Prime Minister is
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  Speaker 1: standing by his man. It was a remarkable claim by
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  Speaker 1: embattled Immigration Minister Andrew Giles on Sky News last week.
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  Speaker 2: There is a quarter of a billion dollars that we've invested
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  Speaker 2: in supporting our law enforcement agencies to enforce that and
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  Speaker 2: that's enabled things like using drones to keep track of
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  Speaker 2: these people win over where they are.
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  Speaker 1: He was talking about more than one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: people with criminal records who've been released by the High
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  Speaker 1: Court of Australia. They were all non citizens of Australia
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  Speaker 1: and some had been convicted of serious violent offenses, including
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  Speaker 1: murder and child sex abuse. The High Court said the
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  Speaker 1: government couldn't keep these people in indefinite detention. The government
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  Speaker 1: had tried to deport them to their home countries with
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  Speaker 1: no success, so they were set free and it's set
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  Speaker 1: off a political nightmare now entering its fifth month. Two
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  Speaker 1: of the convicts, convicted murderers, had no electronic monitoring.
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  Speaker 2: I just have them all with electronic monitor because the
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  Speaker 2: law doesn't allow it.
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  Speaker 1: Turns out the claim about the drones was wrong. There
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  Speaker 1: are no drones, and on Monday the minister, who's already
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  Speaker 1: at the center of this and another catastrophe, had to
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  Speaker 1: admit it.
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  Speaker 2: I relied on information provided by my department at the time, which.
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  Speaker 3: Has since which has since been clor of members on
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  Speaker 3: my land.
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  Speaker 1: Giles attacked Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.
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  Speaker 3: This is a blake who trashed our immigration system, who
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  Speaker 3: trashed integrity who trashed enforcement, who let nearly thirteen hundred
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  Speaker 3: people out, not buy a court, not by a tribunal,
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  Speaker 3: without any constraints on their behavior. That's the measure of
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  Speaker 3: the man's That.
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  Speaker 1: Other catastrophe I mentioned, that's where the minister issued a
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  Speaker 1: new policy that has inadvertently resulted in more violent criminals
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  Speaker 1: remaining in Australia after the government tried to kick them out.
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  Speaker 3: The last week, I've canceled thirty visas in the national interest.
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  Speaker 3: By the end of this week we will have in
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  Speaker 3: place a new revised ministerial direction.
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  Speaker 1: And the Prime Minister is backing him in.
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  Speaker 4: We continue to refuse and cancel visas on character grounds.
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  Speaker 4: We continue to deport people who have no right to
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  Speaker 4: be here. Since coming to government, we've deported over four
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  Speaker 4: two hundred individuals from immigration detention.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Lemmon is appealing his loss in the Giant defamation
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  Speaker 1: battle with Network ten and Lisa Wilkinson watched his appeal
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  Speaker 1: on Friday, and he'll be arguing that Justice Michael Lee
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  Speaker 1: got it wrong when he found Lahman did on the
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  Speaker 1: balance of probabilities rape Brittany Higgins. Lamman has run out
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  Speaker 1: of lawyers willing to represent him on a no win,
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  Speaker 1: no fee basis, so he'll be representing himself up against
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  Speaker 1: the expert defamation barristers Ten and Wilkinson will no doubt engage.
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  Speaker 1: They'll likely request the court order Laman to pay a
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  Speaker 1: surety upfront to ensure they do get paid if they win.
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  Speaker 1: If the appeal goes ahead, Brittany Higgins will likely need
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  Speaker 1: to spend more time in court. But on Saturday, Higgins
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  Speaker 1: got to enjoy a moment of pure joy. The former
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  Speaker 1: Liberal staffer married her partner of four years, David Cherraz.
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  Speaker 1: The wedding was held at the Ritzy Valley estate in
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  Speaker 1: Crumbin on the Gold Coast. The bride wore a dress
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  Speaker 1: by Australian designer Paolo Sebastian and a big beaming smile.
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  Speaker 1: Higgins posted to Instagram after the ceremony today I married
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  Speaker 1: my best friend. Security at the event was tight, with
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  Speaker 1: members of the media kept well away, although some did
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  Speaker 1: make the guest list. Among the eighty or so people
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  Speaker 1: invited was TV producer Judy mccrosson whose option the movie
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  Speaker 1: rights to Brittney Higgins's unpublished memoir about her Parliament House
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  Speaker 1: ordeal and everything that followed. One guest caught ris David
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  Speaker 1: Shiraz's psychic friend, Carrie de Bloc. The Australian's Margin Call
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  Speaker 1: column is reporting Sharaz has turned to du Bloc for
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  Speaker 1: guidance many times over his years in Canberra. Coming up,
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  Speaker 1: what's waiting for Brittaney Higgins and David Sharaz on the
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  Speaker 1: other side of the honeymoon. While I've got you, we'd
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  Speaker 1: out at the Australian dot com dot au and we'll
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  Speaker 1: be back after this break. Just last week, as former
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  Speaker 1: Liberal staff for Brittany Higgins prepped for her big day,
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  Speaker 1: her legal representatives were back in front of a judge
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  Speaker 1: at the David Malcolm Justice Center in Perth. Higgins is
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  Speaker 1: being sued by her former boss, Senator Linda Reynolds for
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  Speaker 1: social media posts made last year. Reynolds says her reputation
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  Speaker 1: was damaged by the posts made separately on Instagram and
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  Speaker 1: x formerly known as Twitter.
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  Speaker 5: I would like to commend Justice Lee on all of
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  Speaker 5: his findings, and I think it is time that all
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  Speaker 5: parties in this except all of his judgments, and that
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  Speaker 5: includes Scinance Minister, Attorney Generals and the Attorney General's Apartment,
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  Speaker 5: is signed for them to admit they got it wrong.
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  Speaker 1: David Charaz was also on the hook, but he's stepped
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  Speaker 1: back from the matter, saying a trial would bankrupt him.
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  Speaker 1: This latest legal action has had several false starts, with
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  Speaker 1: mandated mediations breaking down more than once. Now, Senator Reynolds
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  Speaker 1: is attempting to uncover the details of a protected trust
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  Speaker 1: in Brittney Higgins's name. Her lawyers believe it's been set
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  Speaker 1: up to shield a two point four million dollar compensation
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  Speaker 1: payout from litigation. Reynolds lawyer Martin Bennett said last month
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  Speaker 1: he's been waiting to receive a copy of the trust
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  Speaker 1: deed since March. He believes it holds important details that
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  Speaker 1: will clarify its purpose. Basically, what they're trying to decipher
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  Speaker 1: is if Brittney Higgins could actually pay damages or legal
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  Speaker 1: costs to Linda Reynolds. If a judge finds the former
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  Speaker 1: senator was defamed, the matter will head to trial in
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  Speaker 1: late July. Late last month, the other defamation matter where
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Laman unsuccessfully sued Network ten and Lisa Wilkinson, was
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  Speaker 1: back before the fees Court Front Listeners.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: Laman lost overall because, just as Michael Lee found he
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  Speaker 1: did on the balance of probabilities rape Brittany Higgins in
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. As you know, he's appealing that verdict.
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  Speaker 6: Having escaped the lines dead, mister Lehmott made the mistake
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  Speaker 6: of coming back.
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  Speaker 1: For his hat. By Justice Lee had big problems with
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  Speaker 1: the Network ten and Lisa Wilkinson's journalism, and they lost
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  Speaker 1: on their other defense, which was qualified privilege. That is,
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  Speaker 1: their journalism was reasonable. The judge said it wasn't reasonable.
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  Speaker 1: Laman will have to pay most of Ten and Wilkinson's costs,
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  Speaker 1: but it's unlikely he has the multi millions required to
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  Speaker 1: settle their bills. Now, Wilkinson and tenned trying to sort
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  Speaker 1: out who pays which parts of her legal bills. This
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  Speaker 1: after the trial ensured all ten's dirty laundry was well
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  Speaker 1: and truly aired. How it effectively sacked Wilkinson from her
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  Speaker 1: on air roll after she made an unfortunate logi speech,
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  Speaker 1: even though Ten had legaled and approved the speech, how
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  Speaker 1: it tried to persuade her not to engage her own lawyers,
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  Speaker 1: and how after Brittany Higgins indicated she didn't like Wilkinson's
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  Speaker 1: chosen lawyers, how TEN tried to get its former start
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  Speaker 1: to choose different representatives.
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  Speaker 6: Good afternoon, We start with breaking news and the judge
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  Speaker 6: has just had done his decision in Lisa Wilkinson's case
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  Speaker 6: against Network ten. She was asking for ten to cover
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  Speaker 6: her costs in the defamation case against Bruce Lehreman.
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  Speaker 1: Ten is still quibbling about how much of Wilkinson's bills
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  Speaker 1: it should pay, but it all came out in the
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  Speaker 1: open at the most recent hearing. Wilkinson's total bill so
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  Speaker 1: far is one point eight million dollars. That includes eight
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars per day in court for top deformation silk
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  Speaker 1: sue chrisanthe sc plus eight hundred dollars per hour for
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  Speaker 1: preparation work, sending emails and travel time. It also includes
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  Speaker 1: another three and a half thousand per day for the
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  Speaker 1: junior barrister working with Chrisanthu, Barry Dean, and then the
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  Speaker 1: solicitors who charged Wilkinson up Todome seven hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: dollars per hour for their work on the case. That
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  Speaker 1: firm Gillis Delaney charged three hundred and ninety dollars for
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