I was pretty surprised at these reported comment by the lawyer for the defendants about the Victorian DPP's decision to withdraw charges against Mr Setka and Mr Reardon: "Crucially it's been exposed that neither of the Boral men viewed the coffee shop conversation as any kind of threat at the time and did not think of it as any kind of threat for over a year," Mr Gordon said. "And after a year, their view of that coffee shop conversation, their recollection of it got changed. "It got changed only after various lawyers got involved, internal lawyers for Boral, external lawyers for Boral, lawyers for the ACCC, and crucially lawyers for Dyson Heydon's Trade Union Royal Commission." He said multiple drafts were made of witness statements that changed an "entirely innocent" coffee shop conversation into a blackmail threat. I wonder how the lawyers referred to above will respond to those claims? I know what I'd be doing.
https://www.afr.com/news/policy/industrial-relations/cfmmeu-boss-john-setka-has-blackmail-charges-dropped-over-alleged-boral-ban-20180516-h104d5
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