Justice, truth and peace # Justice is one of our most primal instincts (we are hard wired against an injustice) and our most fundamental cherished entitlement. Even as young children we have an instinctive sense of what is fair and just. We may not know anything about law, but we recognise an injustice immediately even if it doesn’t concern us directly. A layman’s definition of justice may be nothing more than us getting our comeuppance; deserved reward or just deserts. ...
Canada and Australia # Canada and Australia share significant similarities in history and governance. Both are stridently egalitarian treasuring their freedoms and human rights. Both were colonial outposts. Both have strip ribbon settlements. Both depend on extractive industries to thrive economically. Both made significant contributions to England’s wars maintaining her colonial empire. General Haig, writing to his wife about us colonials, describes the Australians as: “brave and daring soldiers, but uncouth, dirty, undisciplined, disrespectful to the officers and unruly. ...
Open letters to current Canadian Ministers of Justice # Re: CJC File: 14-0393 # This is a compilation of various letters written to incoming Federal and Provincial Justice and Prime Ministers over the past twelve years regarding a formal complaint made to the Canadian Judicial Council. The fact that the complaint has never received a genuine, meaningful response is in direct defiance of a statute of the Canadian Parliament. This enabling silence emboldens all judges to assert their unentilted defiance of the public and our expected norms. ...