Ministers’ personal relationships don’t automatically imply corruption, lawyers for former New South Wales (NSW) Premier Gladys Berejiklian argued in her bid to overturn corruption findings linked to her secret relationship with a fellow MP.
In a two-day hearing at the NSW Court of Appeal, Ms. Berejiklian hired high-profile lawyer Bret Walker SC to challenge the Independent Commission Against Corruption’s (ICAC) ruling that she engaged in serious corruption about funding grants to her former partner, Liberal MP Daryl Maguire’s electorate.
