Tom Molomby - Highs, Lows and Fast Corners

6pm for 6.30pm Saturday 14th November
Tom Molomby in conversation with David Marr

The book is a collection of some 35 intriguing cases with surprising twists and turns. Many involve deeply emotional and tragic situations. Their story is told from the inside with reflections on the process and the difficult decisions that a barrister has to make.

They include;

the trial of Tim Anderson in 1990 for the Hilton bombing, lost at trial but won on appeal.
the challenge to the winner of the 2004 Archibald Prize on the basis that his work was a drawing not a painting.
the defence of a woman sued for defamation by a millionaire phoney guru against whom she had been persistently blogging.
the defence of a Green councillor sued for defamation by one of the country's biggest developers for what she had said about him in opposing some of his projects.
defending the university student who ran towards Prince Charles firing a starting pistol, expecting to be shot down, and thus obtain publicity for the cause of boat people.
These cases raise fundamental questions about the quest for truth, the force of prejudice, and the real nature of justice.



Tom Molomby SC has been a barrister for more than 35 years. Before that, he worked for the ABC in television and radio, where he was one of the founders of Radio National's The Law Report, still on air. He has written four books on Australian miscarriages of justice: Ratten, the Web of Circumstance, Who Killed Hannah Jane, Spies, Bombs and the Path of Bliss, and The Shearer's Tale.

David Marr presents Late Night Live on ABC Radio National. He has had one of the most diverse and successful careers in Australian media. He has been the editor of the National Times, the presenter of Media Watch and has won three Walkley Awards. He has written several books, among them, Barwick, Patrick White, A Life, The High Price of Heaven, Dark Victory (with Marian Wilkinson), The Henson Case and Killing for Country, a Family Story.