Justice Dyson Heydon hangs on, but it doesn't look good
Aug 14, 2015 6:31:03 GMT -6
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Justice Dyson Heydon hangs on, but it doesn't look good [brisbanetimes.com.au]
John Dyson Heydon is, at first blush, an unlikely candidate for disqualification from sitting on a court or a statutory inquiry into corruption and maladministration. Justice Heydon cultivated a reputation for punctiliousness throughout a long career in academia and on the bench, including a 10-year stint on the High Court, and frequently inveighed against what he saw as rulings based on personal or political considerations rather than on existing law – judicial activism. He would certainly be well acquainted with the requirement for judges to disqualify themselves from cases in which there was actual bias or a perception of apprehended bias.
Nevertheless, two days after hurriedly withdrawing from a speaking engagement at a Sydney dinner organised for and on behalf of the Liberal Party, Justice Heydon resumed his seat at the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption in Sydney. The inquiry over which he has presided since its establishment by the Abbott government in March 2014 has frequently been characterised as a union witch hunt and an attempt to slander the Labor Party. There is no evidence or suggestion that Justice Heydon's stewardship of the royal commission is that way inclined, or that his judgments on the High Court were in any way influenced by party political considerations. Nonetheless, when a Liberal Party judicial appointee accepts an invitation to attend a Liberal Party function at which guests are invited to donate to party coffers, a fair-minded lay observer might reasonably apprehend that he may not bring an impartial and unprejudiced mind to the resolution of the question that appointee is required to decide.
Nevertheless, two days after hurriedly withdrawing from a speaking engagement at a Sydney dinner organised for and on behalf of the Liberal Party, Justice Heydon resumed his seat at the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption in Sydney. The inquiry over which he has presided since its establishment by the Abbott government in March 2014 has frequently been characterised as a union witch hunt and an attempt to slander the Labor Party. There is no evidence or suggestion that Justice Heydon's stewardship of the royal commission is that way inclined, or that his judgments on the High Court were in any way influenced by party political considerations. Nonetheless, when a Liberal Party judicial appointee accepts an invitation to attend a Liberal Party function at which guests are invited to donate to party coffers, a fair-minded lay observer might reasonably apprehend that he may not bring an impartial and unprejudiced mind to the resolution of the question that appointee is required to decide.
Personal Disclosure: Way to ruin your reputation judge and bring the whole system into disrepute!
I knew judges were supposed to bring corruption into the light but this brings new meaning to it!
We need unions but we don't need full time union bosses drawing a salary. Direct democracy under the unions charter works fine here and the union can hire lawyers to negotiate.
We need government but we don't need politicians. Direct democracy under republic of laws would work fine here.
We need courts but we don't need no permanent judges! Let the jury decide the guilty parties fate [they already do with death penalty cases] and let the jury foreman act as judge.
SEPARATION OF POWERS exists for a reason! Pretty sure it was a god damned good one to do with preventing corruption at all levels.
Seems the Australian judiciary is corrupt and so is the reigning government and I'd point out that union bosses no longer work in the profession they are advocating for and have also become corrupt!
And people are shocked and surprised when I say I am at war with my nation!
Wouldn't you be? [Rhetorical]
DONT ANSWER ^^^ THAT OK! I am the legally insane one ok! Instead ask yourself if the judge should resign?
This is MY tax $ at work here and I am not smelling any thing to justify1 Nah! It all smells just-iffy ! 
