High Court has 'power and duty' to hear Gillespie case

By Adam Gartrell
Updated November 23 2017 - 4:43pm, first published 4:34pm

The High Court has both the "power and duty" to rule on a challenge that could disqualify a Turnbull government minister - further threatening the Coalition's tenuous grip on power - even though the case was brought by a private citizen rather than referred by Parliament.

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