After the court hearing, members of the McCabe family and their lawyers celebrated with champagne at a Melbourne pub. Mrs McCabe was the first Australian to successfully sue a tobacco company. She was awarded $700,000 by the Victorian Supreme Court, after a judge found that British American Tobacco Australia Services had destroyed thousands of documents to prevent them from being used in court. Two months after she passed away, that decision was overturned on appeal. BATAS has since pursued Mrs McCabe's family for costs, which total more than $10 million.