Left Wing Justice

After reading the following essay you may well end up looking like this stressed cat..

From : http://www.themidnightsun.org/

In Victoria, Australia, a judge has been appointed into the Supreme Court of Victoria known for defending international drug traffickers and terror suspects. He was appointed by the Victorian Attorney-General.

The Victorian Attorney-General, Rob Hulls, yesterday came under fire for his latest round of judicial appointments which - aside from Mr Lasry - also includes a former ACTU assistant secretary, Iain Ross.

The promotion of Dr Ross - a former ALP member and union official - to the County Court was immediately attacked by the Liberal Party as the latest in a long line of political appointments.

Mr Hulls has previously installed three former presidents of civil liberties group Liberty Victoria to the bench, with left-wing lawyer Gregory Connellan the latest to become a judge.

Overall, he has made sweeping changes to the judiciary in Victoria - appointing more than half of the 214 judges since he became Attorney-General in 1999. Even one of his former chiefs-of-staff, Fiona Hayes, was made a magistrate this year, and one-time Labor candidate Stuart Morris served as head of the Victorian Civil and Administrative Appeals tribunal before resigning earlier this year.

Several of Mr Hulls’s appointments, including County Court head Michael Rozenes and Court of Appeal judge Frank Vincent, were members of a group called “Lawyers for Labor”, which backed Mark Latham’s election bid in 2004.

After a career as a trade union official, Dr Ross served for 12 years as a vice-president of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission before becoming a partner at law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth.

Opposition legal affairs spokesman Robert Clarke attacked Dr Ross’s appointment, saying he had spent only a brief period as a solicitor and that his judicial experience was questionable.

“His appointment seems to owe as much to his union or industrial relations background as to his qualifications for the bench,” he said.

“It’s worrying that an increasing number of judicial appointments are coming from a strong Labor or union background under Rob Hulls.”

Mr Lasry has been a … high-profile criminal lawyer who has represented terror suspect Jack Thomas, two of the so-called Bali Nine drug smugglers, as well as convicted heroin trafficker Van Nguyen, who was executed in Singapore.

He was once a member of the ALP but has recently criticised the party’s stance on refusing to stand up for Indian-born Queensland doctor Mohamed Haneef, pushed out of Australia despite the farcical collapse of charges of aiding terrorism levelled against him. (SOURCE)

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