Lawyer Rob Moodie sashayed into the High Court in Wellington yesterday in navy blue skirt and black pantyhose – to bring contempt proceedings against two other lawyers.
Yesterday’s issue was one of the spin-offs from the Berryman saga – the long-running legal wrangle over culpability after bee keeper Ken Richards died in 1994 when an army-built bridge collapsed on Keith and Margaret Berryman’s King Country farm.
The Berrymans have been fighting to clear their name ever since.
Dr Moodie stopped representing the couple after he was accused of contempt of court after publishing a suppressed report, the Butcher Report, on the Internet.
Dr Moodie began wearing women’s garments at a hearing last month reportedly in protest against the “old boys’ network” that he said ran the judiciary.
Yesterday he wore a navy blue calf-length skirt and suit jacket, a blue and red print blouse, a small brooch, a bracelet, black pantyhose and a girl’s plastic watch.
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Moodie dangles handbag, wears pantyhose for court