Margaret Cunneen – Watching The Watchdog

Christian Porter’s proposal protects the rule of law

Justice for All18 January 2019

Christian Porter’s proposal for a federal anti-corruption commission has achieved something remarkable. The Attorney-General has positioned the Morrison government as the champion of human rights. Equally remarkable is the reality...

ICAC Politics

Great Harm to Innocent People – An ICAC story by Margaret Cunneen

Justice for All1 August 2018

The following paper is from the Samuel Griffiths Society (SGS) – formed to uphold Rule of Law and the Australian Constitution. Their annual meeting is in Brisbane 3-5/8/18. Great Harm...

ICAC In The Press Politics The Australian

Margaret Cunneen calls for ICAC review system

Justice for All27 July 2018

NSW prosecutor Margaret Cunneen SC has called for the state’s anti-corruption agency to be subjected to a new system of merits review aimed at weeding out mistakes that currently remain...

In The Press

Obeids and ICAC feel blow of The Hammer in NSW Supreme Court

Justice for All30 September 2016

There is no doubt that Eddie Obeid and his sons are, by a country mile, the big losers from this week’s ruling by David Hammerschlag in the NSW Supreme Court....

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....

ICAC

Get a thicker skin- Watson doesn’t like the shoe on another foot!

Justice for All21 January 2016

The NSW corruption watchdog’s star barrister, Geoffrey Watson SC, has threatened powerful radio host Alan Jones with a defamation suit if he does not publicly apologise for calling him a...

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 In The Press Politics

Time to remove stench of ICAC ‘corruption’ claims: John Kinghorn

Justice for All16 November 2015

by: Chris Merritt, Legal Affairs Editor, The Australian, November 13, 2015. Businessman John Kinghorn has just joined an elite club: the innocent victims of the NSW government’s Independent Commission Against...

ICAC In The Press Politics

Mike Baird’s bad politics over ICAC changes will get worse

Justice for All16 November 2015

by: Chris Merritt, Legal Affairs Editor, The Australian, November 13, 2015. For better or worse, Mike Baird has linked his fate to an organisation whose competence and rigour are seriously...