David Levine – Watching The Watchdog

In The Press

Rogue body persecutes innocents via trial by media

Justice for All9 September 2016

Our common law system with all its appeals, formalities and procedures, checks and balances, hard-won evidentiary rules developed for the protection of individual liberty, may be slow and even arcane....

In The Press

ICAC’s ongoing smear shows need for reform

Justice for All5 August 2016

Former NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption commissioner David Ipp, in his response to the review of that agency by its independent inspector, knows of no one whose reputation has been...

In The Press

ICAC Inspector Levine- Call to ditch NSW ICAC ‘theatre’ hearings

Justice for All23 May 2016

The NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption would be forced to correct its mistakes and abandon the “flamboyance and theatre” of public hearings under proposals being considered by the state government....

In The Press

Arrogant ICAC continues to blunder along.

Justice for All21 March 2016

ICAC Commissioner Megan Latham has made the extraordinary admission that the NSW corruption watchdog has not learned any great lessons from its flawed, discredited and unlawful investigation into one of...

In The Press

Legal challenges- the excessive abuse of power by faceless bureaucrats, keystone cops and wannabe celebrity lawyers.

Justice for All21 December 2015

One of ICAC’s highest-profile scalps, former NSW police minister Michael Gallacher, is set to return to the Baird government’s frontbench following the state corruption watchdog’s surprise move to back down...

ICAC In The Press Politics

ICAC boss Megan Latham under pressure over Margaret Cunneen

Justice for All7 December 2015

The chief of the NSW corruption watchdog was under pressure last night to step down after the collapse of relations with the agency’s independent inspector, who found she had abused...

ICAC

ICAC boss Megan Latham snubbed inspector David Levine

Justice for All2 December 2015

Commissioner Megan Latham refused to meet ICAC inspector David Levine to answer questions about the bungled investigation into prosecutor Margaret Cunneen. The Australian can reveal Mr Levine, a former Supreme...

Politics

POLITICIANS SPIN FILE #3

Justice for All24 November 2015

Baird backs extension to ICAC’s powers The recent vote in Parliament to extend ICAC’s powers to allow ICAC to initiate criminal charges continues the systematic erosion of governance standards in...

In The Press

ICAC ‘omitted’ statement from evidence to DPP on Murray Kear

Justice for All16 November 2015

by: Sharri Markson, Media Editor, The Australian, November 14, 2015. The NSW corruption watchdog handed over evidence to the Director of Public Prosecutions that allegedly omitted statements made in favour...

ICAC The Australian

When mud sticks … cost of ICAC’s rough justice

Justice for All6 November 2015

Prejudice: Chris Merritt, The Australian, November 06, 2015 When David Levine examined the horrific way in which the NSW justice system treated Newcastle businessman Andrew Poole he did not mince...