by Sally Layson | May 2, 2025 | All Posts, Chris Merritt, ICAC, Media Article
This month marks an anniversary, of sorts, for former NSW sports minister John Sidoti. It’s no cause for celebration. Instead, it highlights the appalling delays afflicting that state’s criminal justice system. Those delays are the direct result of the inconsistent...
by Chris Merritt | Apr 22, 2025 | All Posts, Chris Merritt, Commentary, Human Rights, ICAC, Media Article
Geoffrey Robertson KC is one of those annoying lawyers who cannot be pigeon-holed. In May last year when he appeared at Sydney’s State Theatre there was much eye-rolling among conservatives in the audience when some of his funniest jokes came at the expense of Peter...
by Chris Merritt | Feb 20, 2025 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, ICAC, Media Article
In a perfect world, this country’s record for fair dealing with American companies would be enough to persuade Donald Trump to exempt Australia from the tariffs he plans to impose from March 12. But Australia’s treatment of US companies has not always been fair. Far...
by Chris Merritt | Dec 13, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, ICAC, Media Article
NSW premier Chris Minns has just been given a valuable if traumatic lesson about the true impact on that state of its Independent Commission Against Corruption. The question now is whether this will be enough to persuade the Labor government to fix a problem that has...
by Chris Merritt | Nov 14, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, ICAC, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
What’s wrong with this picture? Beau Lamarre-Condon is a former NSW policeman facing two charges of domestic violence murder which are alleged to have taken place in February. During the week a Sydney magistrate was told that most of the prosecution’s brief of...
by Chris Merritt | Nov 14, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, ICAC, Media Article
On Monday, the NSW Court of Criminal Appeal handed down a clear and unanimous decision that contains two messages. The first is that Ian Macdonald, a former state minister for mineral resources, has lost his appeal and is back in prison serving the rest of his...
