UK women’s rights activist Kellie-Jay Keen has issued defamation concerns notices against both the ABC and Victorian opposition leader John Pesutto, as she prepares to lodge a case in the Federal Court, which could run concurrently with expelled Liberal Moira Deeming’s.
Mrs Deeming is suing Mr Pesutto for allegedly defaming her after she attended a “Let Women Speak” rally last March, which was gatecrashed by neo-Nazis.
The case has been set down for a two-week trial in September, where Mrs Deeming and Mr Pesutto will respectively be represented by star defamation barristers Sue Chrysanthou SC, and Matt Collins KC.
Fellow gender-critical feminist and protest organiser Angie Jones has also lodged a concerns notice against Mr Pesutto, using the same legal team as Ms Keen, namely Brisbane-based Alexander Rashidi Lawyers, barrister Bridie Nolan, and lawyer, former Liberal candidate and outspoken critic of recent changes to transgender laws, Katherine Deves.
Ms Keen’s concerns notices follow a notice she issued in late August, against Mr Pesutto and the other three members of his Liberal leadership team, accusing them of making “grossly misconceived, wilfully vexatious, and wretchedly false” claims, which she argued had seen her become the target of “extreme hate, abuse, harassment, and stalking”, and culminated in her “being physically attacked” and “placed in life threatening danger” at a Let Women Speak rally in New Zealand.
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