Australia's reputation as a rule based safe haven for investment further tainted by judiciary attacking media: Judges' association reaction to media reporting on the Pell decision reminiscent of Malaysia's Eusoffe Chin era

by Ganesh Sahathevan


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Media bays for blood of judges in Pell case

There has been a flood of emotion and a tsunami of articles following the High Court decision in the Pell case.

Justice Kelly seems to have forgotten if not is unaware that others  also thought the judges of Victoria's Court Of Appeal in Pell's case were at best,incompetent. Here as some examples:

Keith Windschuttle, historian:

... "Those of us who still believe the traditional notion of the law’s majesty remains an essential social pillar that helps preserve us from barbarism can only hope that the B-grade spectacle we have witnessed at so many places in the persecution of George Pell is an aberration and not a portent of some squalid, unwatchable future."

Geoffrey Luck, journalist:
Of all the court transcripts I have read, nothing prepared me for the shoddy, facile, simplistic argumentation of the judgement of the two majority judges – Chief Justice Anne Ferguson and President Chris Maxwell. 

And then there is the article titled Where the Pell Judgment Went Fatally Wrong by John Finnis AC QC  professor emeritus at Oxford University, having been Professor of Law and Legal Philosophy from 1989 to 2010.  He is a Fellow of the British Academy (Law and Philosophy sections). A barrister of Gray’s Inn, he practised from 1979 to 1995 and was appointed Queen’s Counsel [QC] (honoris causa) in 2017.  Originally from South Australia, he was created a Companion in the Order of Australia in 2019 ‘for eminent service to the law, and to education, to legal theory and philosophical enquiry, and as a leading jurist, academic and author’.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2020




More Eusoffe Chin era behaviour from Australia's judges: Judges' association president accuses media of "baying for the blood" of Vic Court Of Appeal judges in Pell case

Saturday, April 11, 2020

Australia's reputation as a rule based safe haven for investment tainted by errant judges: Pell decision reveals a judicial system where the influential can rely on court processes to achieve desired outcomes