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. ...
Australian Judges # On the whole you could conclude that Australia - the lucky country - has had a lot of very good judges, yet there have also been many bad apples. We are lucky because some of the goodies have stood up to the baddies. Gerard Brennan, former chief Justice of Australia is a clear example. Misconduct in mishandling evidence materially undermines public respect, impairing the institutional integrity of the relevant court. ...
Hesiodic Works and Days # Excerpts on perversion of Justice # Hesiod, a contemporary of Homer and a mentor to Solon, wrote two major poems, Works and Days, an almanac of how to live a productive, worthy life and The Theogony, his version of the origin of the universe. This version of Works and Days is translated by Gregory Nagy 1 Muses of Pieria, you who make glory [kleos] with your songs, ...
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. ...
Democracy and Justice # “Democracy is the worst form of government; except for all the others”. Churchill. “that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth”. From the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln ...
Geoffrey Rush vs. The Daily Telegraph # Geoffrey Rush, a world renown actor, won a defamation case against the Murdoch rag, The Daily Telegraph for alleging inappropriate sexual behavior in a production of King Lear. Using large bold sensationalist headlines “King Leer”, obviously to evoke tantalizing instances of salacious titillation and arouse prurient curiosity merely to increase sales, was in my view totally irresponsible – but what do you expect from a Murdoch tabloid – the Lord of the gutter press? ...