Icac findings against Gladys Berejiklian based on ‘depressing and unrealistic view of life’, lawyer says

Ex-premier’s barrister says ‘notion that having an attachment is itself a standing potential for impropriety can only be regarded as a black view’

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Gladys Berejkilian’s barrister in her case against NSW anti-corruption watchdog findings has argued that viewing a relationship as a “standing potential for impropriety” is a “black, depressing and utterly unrealistic view of human life”.

The former premier is arguing in the New South Wales court of appeal that findings against her by the Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac) of serious corrupt conduct were invalid because the assistant commissioner in charge of the probe was no longer at the commission when they were finalised.