Top silk ‘joked’ with class action lawyer Mark Elliott about misleading fee expert, court told

Class Actions 2020-05-05 5:34 pm By Christine Caulfield | Melbourne

A prominent silk deliberately misled a cost consultant retained to provide an opinion on the barrister’s fees to a court overseeing a class action over the collapse of Banksia Securities, then joked about it with lawyer and litigation funder Mark Elliott, a judge has been told.