Asking King Pyrrhus for legal advice
Another victory like that one and we will be utterly ruined. That quote, attributed to King Pyrrhus in about 275 BC, sprang to mind when I heard that former Australian Attorney General Christian Porter had described the withdrawal of his defamation action against the ABC and journalist Louise Milligan as "a humiliating backdown" for the broadcaster. It's not a very useful quote, I suppose, because King Pyrrhus certainly won the battle against the Romans that prompted his rueful remark. His point was simply that the cost was so high he couldn't afford another victory like it.…