John Pascoe rides again. Federal Magistrates Court of Australia changes name but not the criminal running the joint

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John Pascoe rides again. Federal Magistrates Court of Australia changes name but not the criminal running the joint

April 17th, 2013

Becky

Chief Federal Magistrate John Pascoe is now known as Chief Judge John Pascoe given the court changed its name and judicial titles last Friday. It still does not change the fact he is the biggest criminal in the judicial system. Not many people can lay claim to fame that they have ripped off every Australian which John Pascoe can, given his price-fixing history when he was running George Weston Foods.

Chief Judge John Pascoe’s criminal history is rather long and the evidence is some of the most powerful any prosecutor could ever want given a lot of it has already been tested in court. I have written about John Pascoe before in an extensive and well documented post in July 2011 titled “The handiwork of Chief Federal Magistrate John Pascoe – witness bribing, price-fixing, succumbing to blackmail to conceal a crime and lying to shareholders etc. Is there anything this man cannot do?” (Click here to read the post)

With the courts name change and the elevation of the Magistrates to Judges it is worth looking again at Mr Pascoe and who and what he is. The government have promoted the magistrates, yet failed to address the underlying problems of the court. That being its credibility with John Pascoe running the show.

John Pascoe’s criminal conduct was brought to light in a judgement handed down in 2004 by the then Federal Court judge, Justice Roger Gyles, in the matter, Australian Competition & Consumer Commission v George Weston Foods Limited [2004] FCA 1093 (25 August 2004) (Click here to read the judgement)