00:00Seven years fighting the state government as she counted her losses.
00:07Today's win is bittersweet.
00:10Finally, finally, we got justice after many, many years.
00:17Angela Vithorkas walked away from her George Street cafe in 2018
00:22after the dust, noise and delays in building the light rail project
00:27drove customers away.
00:29She led a $400 million class action in the Supreme Court in 2023
00:33winning $4 million for her business from the NSW Government.
00:37But that was overturned.
00:39The appeal court finding the project was protected from liability.
00:43We were persecuted by the Liberal Government,
00:46then the Labor Government who promised to support us
00:50and totally turned their back on us.
00:53The claimants took their case to the High Court.
00:56Today, it's ruled Transport for NSW failed to minimise interference to businesses
01:02and they are liable.
01:04The ruling means that 300 other businesses that signed up to the class action
01:08will now finally claim compensation.
01:10But the exact amount is still yet to be worked out.
01:13And there's really nowhere for them to go except to split hairs over a few dollars now.
01:18Costs that will come at the expense of the taxpayer.
01:21Costs that will come at the expense of the taxpayer.
01:24The
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