Richard Norton-Taylor reported for the Guardian on the UK government’s 1987 attempt to ban a former MI5 officer’s memoirs in Australia. Here he recalls a young lawyer in the caseWe knew Malcolm Turnbull as the cocky pombasher. Or rather the shining young lawyer who humiliated the British establishment.
For the best part of six weeks in a Sydney courtroom 30 years ago,he ran rings around witnesses struggling, at Margaret Thatchers behest, and to ban the publication of Spycatcher,the memoirs of the former MI5 officer Peter Wright.
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Source: theguardian.com