Meet the go-to lawyer for Perth’s elite for the past 50 years
Martin Bennett sleeps four hours a night, has an eidetic memory and plenty of stories. “If I was in deep doo-doo, I would want Martin,” says a former colleague.
Lawyer Martin Bennett has taken on defamation cases for many of Perth’s business and political elite. Trevor Collens
There are few better illustrations of Martin Bennett’s role in Western Australia’s business and political life than the meticulously organised newspaper clippings in his office.
Hundreds of them, spanning the 1980s to the present day, are pressed into 16 display books stacked in a court trolley that doesn’t leave Bennett’s side – unless you lodge a special request with his helpful assistant. The collection chronicles every bitter corporate row, political scandal and salacious column in which Bennett has ever been featured, and every cheeky caricature of the “Big Man” in his signature loud tie.
Jesinta BurtonWestern Australia reporterJesinta Burton is The Australian Financial Review’s Western Australia reporter based in Perth. Connect with Jesinta on Twitter. Email Jesinta at jesinta.burton@nine.com.au
