Anthony McDonald

Justice Smith, just trying to get to the bottom of that without quantifying it was a big enough job.

I mean, that's why it's taken two and a half years.

And you've got to remember, I mean, she's dealing with evidence from the non-digital age.

She doesn't have like AI note taker in boardrooms.

She's dealing with recollections and handshakes.

Yeah, yeah.

Notes scribbled in the margins.

People that have passed away as well.

It's quite a task.

Anyway, so these parties, Wright and Hancock, if they can, the judges left it up to them to come to an agreement on what it's all worth.

I mean, I'd say there's more chance of the Middle East finding long-term peace than that one.

So, I mean, it most likely heads back to court.

I mean, there could be appeals over this decision as well.

Lawyers have been talking about that for years.

So it's in their court.

Yeah.

What's the real lesson from this fight, do you think, other than lawyers always win?

You read the judgment.

The first hundred pages or so, Smith takes us through the history of the Hancocks and the riots, how they all came together, what they were doing at various stages along the way, the people they were working with, all the tenements and claims with the WA government and all that sort of stuff.

And it just shows you, they were onto such a good thing.