BAT Seeks Australia Documents for Fight Against Plain Packaging
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British American Tobacco Plc urged an Australian appeal court panel to order the release of government documents to help it fight a proposed law to remove all manufacturers’ markings from cigarette packs.
The Dunhill maker needs to deploy the documents “in its efforts to persuade members of parliament that the legislation should not be passed,” Allan Myers, British American Tobacco’s lawyer, told the three-judge panel in Melbourne today. A debate on the law is scheduled for next month, he said.