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The High Court heard cases in Canberra until June, but when the delta coronavirus variant emerged, it switched to remote hearings. The court has told The Australian Financial Review it has no plans to “go live”. However, video of full-court hearings will usually be available within 48 hours. While other federal courts and state courts live-stream proceedings via Zoom or YouTube channels, the High Court does not.

In the next case, he acted for Victoria Forests as the organisation successfully resisted a special leave appeal by a conservation group. On the final sitting day of 2021, he won special leave for Google in its libel fight with a gangland lawyer. Mr Walker is highly sought-after at the special leave stage, and will sometimes replace counsel who have argued the case in other courts. He appeared eight times for plaintiffs seeking leave and four succeeded he appeared seven times opposing leave and succeeded four times. Of the 15 special leave matters, he was on the winning side eight times. Many of the cases are still awaiting judgment, but Mr Walker’s argument won the day in two notable decisions for 2021 – the Workpac v Rossato case on casual workers and the rejection of Dr Ridd’s appeal. Jeremy Kirk, SC, and Justin Gleeson, SC, also appeared more than 10 times. He was twice as busy as Dr Donaghue, who appeared 15 times in 12 cases. He also represented former attorney-general Christian Porter in his defamation battle with the ABC in the Federal Court, and has been engaged by West Australian Premier Mark McGowan for his looming defamation case with billionaire Clive Palmer.Īll up, according to searches of the austlii website, Mr Walker appeared in the High Court 35 times in 32 different matters 18 were full hearings before five or seven judges and 15 were applications for special leave to appeal (when the court conducts a hearing before two or three judges to decide whether the case should go before the full court). In 2021, his High Court clients included the CFMEU, Google, Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo, James Cook University (against academic Peter Ridd), the Dental Corporation and a Northern Territory policeman charged with murder after shooting an Indigenous man. He is also one of the few remaining “generalists”, who is equally adept in a criminal law case as a complex corporate or constitutional matter.Ĭardinal George Pell was one of Mr Walker’s more famous clients he convinced the High Court in 2020 that the cleric should have been found not guilty of child sexual abuse charges. Mr Walker is the nation’s leading advocate and can charge up to $25,000 a day.