engagedpractx, HUH. 'Keen-Minshull and Jones are represented by Katherine Deves, a lawyer-turned Liberal candidate whose public comments on transgender issues split the party during the 2022 federal election campaign. Deves’ involvement in the cases, combined with the decision by a number of conservative, Liberal Party donors to cover Deeming’s legal costs, has morphed the defamation proceedings into an internal party culture war.'