AleXX
2/26/2009 8:48:00 AM
Australia:
DISGRACED former Federal Court judge Marcus Einfeld is pocketing an
annual $200,000 pension from the public purse, a court has heard.
Wayne Roser, SC, for the Crown, said the loss of Einfeld's title of
Queen's Counsel had not affected his pension, which related to his
previous judicial position.
Mr Roser was making submissions in the NSW Supreme Court today in
support of the Crown's call for Einfeld to receive a full-time jail term.
The retired 69-year-old judge has pleaded guilty to perjury and lying to
pervert the course of justice in a bid to avoid a speeding ticket.
Mr Roser described the counts as in the "worst case category" of those
offences, particularly noting Einfeld was not unfamiliar with the law.
Pro PAP wrote:
> On Feb 26, 9:13 am, watiz...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Feb 26, 12:47 am, AleXX <somed...@wherecanyougetsogooddeal.net>
>> wrote:
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>>> Home > Breaking News > Singapore > Story
>>> Feb 24, 2009
>>> 'Worst insult possible'
>>> THREE men who wore T-shirts depicting a kangaroo dressed in judge's
>>> robes last year presented the worst form of insult possible against the
>>> court system here by calling it a 'kangaroo court'.
>>> Justice Judith Prakash, who sentenced them to jail terms last November
>>> after finding them to be in contempt of court, said in her written
>>> judgment that their conduct showed a wilful and stubborn contempt for
>>> the integrity of the courts.
>>> It was also designed to degrade the administration of justice here, she
>>> said in her judgment released on Tuesday.
>>> 'The imputation that the Singapore courts are 'kangaroo courts' was a
>>> serious and scurrilous insult that struck at the foundation, the body
>>> and the spirit of the justice system in Singapore,' she said in
>>> explaining her decision and sentencing.
>>> 'The message was that justice cannot be obtained in our courts and that
>>> our legal proceedings are a sham.'
>>> Describing their actions as the worst form of insult possible against
>>> the court system, she said it merited a harsher punishment than that
>>> imposed previously.
>>> 'It was imperative that a clear message be sent to potential contemnors
>>> that such attacks on the judiciary are not acceptable,' she said.
>>> The trio in question were John Tan Liang Joo, 47, assistant
>>> secretary-general of the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP); activist
>>> Isrizal Mohamed Isa, 33; and full-time national serviceman Muhammad
>>> Shafi'ie Syahmi Sariman, 20.
>>> They wore the T-shirts when they attended a High Court hearing involving
>>> the SDP and its leaders last year.
>>> In her 11-page judgment, Justice Prakash said a reasonable person who
>>> saw the T-shirts would conclude it was a reference to the expression
>>> 'kangaroo court' - and was intended to cast aspersions on conduct of the
>>> hearings the trio attended, and the justice system here.
>>> Read the full report in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.
>> Serve them right. These three stooges played the clowns just as Liar
>> truth would want them to. They had their fun, now is pay back time.
>> Who is laughing now ?????
>>
>> Liar truth is laughing his tail off in his secret hideout down south,
>> address unknown.
>>
>> Any more idiots ?????
>>
>> Hahaha ..... !!!!!
>>
>> ROTFLOL ..... !!!!!
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> Sometimes you have to respect people's judgment at large. If the
> majority opinion or consensus that the PAP's courts are indeed
> kangaroo courts, just let it be. This is in tally for our professed
> democracy to the world. Although I am a Pro PAP and respected our PAP
> government madly and blindly just like you and Lobert the monkey, I
> still think in line with the public that most of Singapore's highly
> respectable courts are in fact kangaroo courts. Or watizzit you are
> thinking?