The case has led to a senior QC investigating if the secretary of state misled the High Court.

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Each of the family was defended by a QC, a senior barrister, who was assisted by junior counsel.

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QC, a queen's counsel, in effect a senior barrister, but she was the first woman to attain that status in Australia.

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