View previous topic :: View next topic |
Author |
Message |
Pies4shaw
pies4shaw
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
|
Post subject: | |
|
I think in the ACT they just have a series of statutory offences. The one that's referred to, there, carries - I believe - a maximum penalty of 12 years. |
|
|
|
|
Pies4shaw
pies4shaw
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
|
|
|
|
|
Pies4shaw
pies4shaw
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
|
Post subject: | |
|
Pies4shaw wrote: | That's correct. They're just paying the costs of the mediation last Friday. Those will be, in legal terms, trivial. By implication, the parties are bearing their own costs of the legal proceedings.
I'm not going to get into a back and forth about this, at all, but plainly, in technical legal parlance, he has been "pantsed".
Pulling back from the legal niceties, he has managed to achieve by his press conference back then and ill-conceived, now aborted litigation something akin to a guarantee that people will always talk about him henceforth in connection with - or referencing - these allegations. |
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-16/christian-porter-blind-trust-legal-bills/100464856
This is going well for him:
Quote: | Porter's legal bills are ... reported to be in the range of $600,000 to $1 million.
....
Some of the [sic] Porter's colleagues are privately baffled at his judgement. Doubts are growing he will recontest his West Australian seat of Pearce. That's ultimately a matter for him.
More urgently, the Prime Minister must make clear where he stands. Is he OK with his cabinet ministers receiving large anonymous donations? Is this a standard he’s willing to accept?
Once again, Morrison has turned to the Secretary of his Department, Phil Gaetjens, for an answer. He's seeking advice on "any implications for the ministerial standards". In other words, the Prime Minister is worried his own standards have been breached, but wants Gaetjens to make the call. This is unlikely to end well for Porter. |
|
|
|
|
|
stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
|
Post subject: | |
|
Pies4shaw wrote: | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-16/bruce-lehrmann-to-fight-sexual-assault-charge-brittany-higgins/100466176 |
He has the epitome of a head you just want to slap. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
|
|
|
|
Pies4shaw
pies4shaw
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
|
|
|
|
|
Pies4shaw
pies4shaw
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
|
Post subject: | |
|
And, he's walked: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-19/christian-porter-resigns-as-minister-over-conflict-of-interest/100474754
Quote: | Christian Porter has resigned from Prime Minster Scott Morrison's ministry after revealing he had accepted an anonymous donation to help cover his personal legal fees.
Mr Porter's future on the frontbench had been in doubt following his declaration that a "blind trust" had paid for part of his discontinued defamation case against the ABC and journalist Louise Milligan.
Mr Morrison had offered no defence of his Industry and Science Minister and asked the head of his department, Phil Gaetjens, to investigate whether the declaration was in breach of the ministerial standards.
On Sunday, Mr Morrison announced Mr Porter had been unable to provide the necessary information to "avoid any perception of conflicts of interest" and had decided to resign. |
|
|
|
|
|
stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
|
Post subject: | |
|
Still planning on going for pre-selection at the next election. That could be interesting.
If he's re-elected with all this public knowledge, does that wipe the slate clean? _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
|
|
|
|
Pies4shaw
pies4shaw
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
|
Post subject: | |
|
Of course not. He's Dead Ministerial Meat. Has been since early April. Morrison did reasonably well to string it out for long enough to find a slightly unconnected reason to take him out. |
|
|
|
|
stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
Joined: 03 May 2005 Location: In flagrante delicto
|
Post subject: | |
|
Most likely correct, in which case someone should have a quiet chat with him about why he won't be getting pre-selected again. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
|
|
|
|
Pies4shaw
pies4shaw
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
|
|
|
|
|
Pies4shaw
pies4shaw
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
|
|
|
|
|
Pies4shaw
pies4shaw
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
|
|
|
|
|
Pies4shaw
pies4shaw
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
|
Post subject: | |
|
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-02/bruce-lehrmann-rape-charge-to-be-dropped-brittany-higgins/101725242
Quote: | ACT Director of Public Prosecutions Shane Drumgold announced this morning that the sexual assault charge against Mr Lehrmann will be dropped, because of an "unacceptable risk to the life of the complainant".
....
This morning, Mr Drumgold said he needed to "consider the harm that could be occasioned to a party, particularly a complainant from an ongoing prosecution."
"I have made the difficult decision that it is no longer in the public interest to pursue a prosecution at the risk of the complainant's life," he said.
"This has left me no option but to file a notice declining to proceed with the retrial of this matter, which I have done this morning. This brings the prosecution to an end.
"Before concluding, during the investigation and trial as a sexual assault complainant, Ms Higgins has faced a level of personal attack that I have not seen in over 20 years of doing this work." |
|
|
|
|
|
David
I dare you to try
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: Andromeda
|
Post subject: | |
|
So the guy charged with rape gets off and the anonymous thugs who threatened her get what they wanted – basically, everyone wins except her. What the hell kind of "justice" system is this? _________________ All watched over by machines of loving grace |
|
|
|
|
Pies4shaw
pies4shaw
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
|
Post subject: | |
|
^ The same system of justice that tried Pell, since you asked. |
|
|
|
|
|