To serve an Anton Piller order in a case where a computer sieze and search is to take place the order is served by the solicitor acting for the plaintiff, a court appointed solicitor to explain his legal rights to the person being served and a computer technician to do the actual search. Solicitors in Queensland and specifically the Elan Vital solicitor are not thuggy looking and computer techies, as you well know, are usually genial nerdy looking types who wouldn't scare a fly.As John wasn't aware he was being taped or filmed he obviously didn't see any thuggy looking private detectives at the time.
The solicitor or barrister who acted for him in the first sitting was unable to do or say anything once the EV team sprang their perjury trap on John. The solicitor/barrister in the sitting I attended was somewhat eccentric to say the least and virtually everything he said was considered irrelevant by the judge who at the end even mentioned he was surprised that they hadn't tried what he considered could have been an effective defense.
While the Queensand system certainly has taken a battering recently with the chief magistrate both jailed and exonerated and controversial (right wing) politicians having the same treatment John's cases were simple and no problems in the Qld court system are needed to explain the results. I remind you that he fared just as badly in NSW.
