Nothing wrong in James Hird hiring a lawyer to protect his interests in the on-going saga, but his choice of a "human rights" specialist as his silk is intriguing.

James has said in just about every interview in the long-running saga that he can't wait for the ASADA report to be made public, yet now he hires a gun who is perhaps best known as an advocate/activist for human rights to stop the sports and drug administration report from being made public (under certain circumstances), if reports in the media are correct. So you can see where the defence is heading. A lawyers fest.

And it'll be a turn-up for the silk, if indeed that is what he argues. Isn't he the guy who has jumped on the international stage to champion such giants of free speech and full divulgence as Julian Assange (and by association the leakers themselves, Bradley Manning and Neil Snowden)? Of course, as we often see in dealings with the "ass", there is seldom clear right or wrong, just fifty shades of grey (ironically just like interpretations of the rules governing the game) . . . and footy, the people's game, will never be the same!