AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By IAN KIRKWOOD June 25, 2013
ALL day I have searched for an image with which to describe the courtroom feel of the Special Commission of Inquiry sitting in Newcastle.
And the best I can come up with is this: imagine a giant ball of wool that you know is there, but which you cannot see.
Imagine, now, that the court participants – the barristers, the witnesses, the special commissioner Margaret Cunneen – can pull skeins of that ball of wool out into the open and examine them, at length, in minute detail.
That’s what it’s like.
The participants have the full script. The affidavits lodged as evidence in chief. Volume after volume of them, all marked with coloured tabs for ease of finding a particular quote or passage.
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