My initial requests for information were denied under the doctrine of “active investigation” and so, on the advice of a lawyer, I began civil court proceedings. These were filed days before the COVID lockdown, at the time the courts had a backlog of up to a year. That backlog had grown to three years before my case finally got in front of a judge. It took so long that the original judge assigned to the case was long retired.
Our pleadings were based on three clauses: trespass, breach of privacy, and breach of parliamentary privilege.
