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...
by Chris Merritt | Nov 1, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, ICAC, Media Article
At last, I have a reason to say something nice about ICAC: its latest annual report shows a remarkable improvement in internal efficiency. Under the leadership of Chief Commissioner John Hatzistergos the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption completed 91 per...
by Chris Merritt | Oct 31, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, ICAC, Media Article
When Anthony Albanese’s government established the National Anti-Corruption Commission it copied some but not all aspects of ICAC in NSW. For the rest of his life, the prime minister should give thanks every day for one of those omissions. Ultimately it might not save...
by Chris Merritt | Aug 1, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, ICAC, Media Article
Every now and then, a dissenting judgement in an important court case is so persuasive it makes injustice impossible to ignore. Mark Weinberg’s dissent over the flawed criminal conviction of the late Cardinal George Pell on child sex abuse charges is the prime...
