APPELLATE COURTS – NEW SOUTH WALES

Judges urged to report concerns

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Original article by Nicola Berkovic
The Australian – Page: 7 : 3-Jul-20

The New South Wales Supreme Court has issued a new policy on unacceptable workplace conduct, covering issues such as sexual harassment, discrimination and bullying. It applies to judges and ­judicial staff, and encourages judges and staff to report unacceptable workplace conduct or suspected misconduct. The policy has been introduced in the wake of sexual harassment allegations raised against former High Court judge Dyson Heydon, and includes the appointment of an external consultant to investigate complaints of unacceptable workplace conduct against judges and other judicial staff.

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Court upholds four of five ICAC rulings

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Original article by Anthony Klan
The Australian – Page: 6 : 30-Jul-14

The New South Wales (NSW) Independent Commission Against Corruption in 2013 ruled against five businessmen involved in the Cascade Coal scandal. The Supreme Court has now rejected appeals against the corruption findings that were launched by Travers Duncan, John McGuigan, John Atkinson and Richard Poole. However it did overturn the ruling against John Kinghorn, who had sat on the Cascade board from February 2009 to September 2013. The company had acquired and on-sold a mining lease that was improperly granted in 2008 by then mining minister Ian Macdonald to Australian Labor Party figure Eddie Obeid

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Judge says child abuse like gay sex

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Original article by Louise Hall
The Sydney Morning Herald – Page: 1 : 10-Jul-14

New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal judges Arthur Emmett, Derek Price and Elizabeth Fullerton have not yet ruled on an application by Crown prosecutor Sally Dowling SC. She wants District Court judge Garry Neilson to be replaced in the case of a man who has pleaded not guilty to sexual intercourse without consent. The accused had sexually abused his sister as a child and again when she was an adult. Neilson argued that a jury may nowadays see the latter as no longer unnatural, and likened incest to homosexuality. The Adults Surviving Child Abuse group has condemned the comments

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