Christian Porter and barrister Sue Crysanthou ordered to pay Jo Dyer $430,000 in legal costs

Dyer won 2021 case forcing former attorney general’s lawyer to stand aside from ABC defamation action, which was later discontinued, because she’d received confidential information

A high-profile advocate of the woman who accused Christian Porter of raping her 30 years ago has been awarded more than $400,000 in costs after the federal court forced the former attorney general’s barrister to stand down during an ABC defamation case.

Jo Dyer is a former chief executive of the Sydney writers’ festival who became one of the most prominent advocates of Porter’s deceased accuser after the former attorney general outed himself as the unnamed minister in an ABC story revealing a dossier detailing the rape claim had been circulated to politicians.