Long active in the areas of civil liberties, gay law reform and police integrity, John Marsden was a well-connected Sydney solicitor with friends in high places when he was very publicly brought down by allegations of paedophilia made against him in state parliament and subsequently aired on Today Tonight and Witness.
What followed turned into the longest, the most expensive, and perhaps the most unsavoury defamation trial Australia has ever seen: a nine-year nightmare that took John Marsden to the brink and beyond; a 'David and Goliath' battle that pitted a media empire against an individual.
