One Nation staffer James Ashby loses court fight to have commonwealth pay $4.5m legal fees
by Amanda Meade from World news | The Guardian on (#5DFMR)
The federal court backs a finance department decision not to grant Ashby an act of grace payment'
One Nation staffer James Ashby has failed in his bid to sue the commonwealth to recover $4.5m in legal costs incurred in litigation with his former boss Peter Slipper.
The federal court justice Robert Bromwich on Friday dismissed Ashby's application for a judicial review of his request for an act of grace payment.
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