‘Transparent’ Lehrmann inquiry head corrupt, court told
The court is a former judge who gives secret material from an investigation into a criminal prosecution of the media claiming that Bruce Lehrmann is “transparent ..
Walter Sofronoff KC asked the federal court to find a march. ACT Integrity Commission The former judge’s serious corruption behavior.
The investigation of the Commission stemmed from Mr. Sofronoff’s secret witness statements and the latest report of the investigation to a journalist.
However, Sofronoff’s lawyer Adam Pomerenk Kc said at a hearing on Monday that the guard’s negative finding was “a serious crime against justice management”.
Mr. Sofronoff told his lawyer Justice Wendy Abraham that he is not corrupt, malicious or dishonest.
On the contrary, he really believed that he had moved in the public interest by sending documents to the media by sending documents such as witness statements.
“In the opinion of Mr. Sofronoff, the fact that he holds real and honestly, even if it is wrong, continues, Mr. Pomerenk said.
“Worst of all, it can be described as a faulty initiative to ensure accuracy and transparency in public discourse.”
ACT integrity commission supported the findings.
Lawyer Scott Robertson SC said that Mr. Sofronoff “threatens public confidence ında in the integrity of the government through his behavior.
According to Ibrahim, the former referee violated his obligations not to disclose the material by leaking the material.
Mr. Sofronoff presided on an investigation board of the criminal justice system after the prosecution of Lehrmann.
In 2019, former liberal working, Lehrmann was accused of raping his code Brittany Higgins at the Parliament House in 2019.
In 2022, a criminal case was abandoned without a decision due to the abuse of the jury.
Lehrmann lost a case of insults in which Ms. Higgins’s allegations brought media reporting, but a judge made it objected to finding that the claim of rape was right in the balance of possibilities.
The investigation led by Sofronoff, the best prosecutor of the action, said that Shane Drumgold had lost his impartiality on the Lehrmann case and lied about a note with publisher Lisa Wilkinson.
Mr. Drumgold resigned and launched a legal challenge for findings in the ACT Supreme Court.
The majority of the findings of the investigation were not legally unreasonable, but a negative finding about how Mr. Drumgold examined Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds during the hearing of Lehrmann.
In March, the ACT Integrity Commission found that most of the findings of the investigation were not legally unreasonable.
However, Mr. Sofronoff found that his behavior during the investigation leads to a reasonable understanding of the prejudice and that he might have been influenced by journalist Janet Albrechtsen’s views.
Mr. Sofronoff repeatedly texted the News Corp columnist and made him a copy of the final report of his probe.
Mr Pomerenk told the Federal Court on Monday that the law acknowledged that the Corruption Organ had found that Mr. Sofronoff may have despised.
The alleged contempt was caused by leaks to the media despite the instructions made during the investigation to suppress certain documents.
However, the idea that an investigation may be disrespectful to him was “ridiculous and unreasonable”.
The court was enough to throw the findings of this privilege against his client.
Barister said that any individual error could not “leave” from Mr. Sofronoff’s last finding of serious corruption behaviors.
Mr. Robertson, despite the fact that the “ultimate finding ın of serious corrupt behaviors was accepted, he still did not agree.
Even before the conclusion that Mr. Sofronoff was dealing with corruption, the commission found that it lacks a possibility and weakened the trust of the people.
The behavior was so if Mr. Drumgold learned that he could apply for the removal of the chairman of the corruption investigation for the former judge before the report was delivered.
The hearing continues.
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