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It was all an accident: Burnside reveals how he came to act for the MUA

Julian Burnside QC, the barrister who led all the way to the High Court the MUA's successful legal battle to reinstate the sacked Patrick Stevedores workforce in 1998, revealed tonight that but for his then impending second marriage, he would have been acting in the case for the National Farmers Federation.

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