Former ACT Chief Magistrate Ron Cahill, the Murray Farquhar of the 21st Century

Former ACT Chief Magistrate Ron Cahill resigned in November 2009 to avoid giving evidence at a judicial inquiry that had been set up to determine if the ACT government had to sack him for interfering in the administration of justice. At the time the police were investigating him for criminal offences in relation to the same matter.

The Ron Cahill episode would have to be the biggest judicial crisis Australia has had since the former NSW Chief Magistrate Murray Farquhar was sentenced to 4 years jail in 1985 for judicial corruption. Yet the media coverage was substantially less than one would expect for such an issue. It should have been front page news for weeks one would have thought. (Click here to read more on Murray Farquhar)

This post is well overdue for this site but near on perfect timing to give an overview of what a disgrace the ACT judicial system is when Ron Cahill’s conduct is put together with the recent post I did on the current crisis with the ACT judge, Justice Richard Refshauge. (Click here to read the post)

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