Sandy - "Justice delayed is justice denied".
: the maintenance or administration of what is just especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishments".
If and it is a bloody great big IF (huge) Buckley was a one off - a rarity - an exception; then most of us would sit back, give the keyboard a day off and watch with interest as the case unfolded; allowing the 'law' to run it's course and abide with the decisions made. But, as the old Gershwin song says - "it ain't necessarily so" - is it.
There exists a long list of carefully examined cases of 'Embuggerance'; not one, but many, some of them IMO, matters some serious concern to the fundamental tenets of the justice system, laws and freedoms hard won in our democratic nation. Both the Buckley and Angel Flight matters while significant, are not on the list of extreme embuggerance. For example there is an on going battle between an operator and the CASA, the details of which may not, as yet, be openly discussed which has been described by a couple of top draw 'legal eagles as hair raising. This, once again, is not an isolated 'one off' but one of the many cases which demand serious examination by the judiciary.
There is a long list of 'Senate Inquiry' : there is a warehouse full of industry submission to those inquiry; there is an industry fully aware of and vocal about the behaviour of the regulator. Yet, at the termination of every costly inquiry the deep, dark, repetitive underpinning element of the discussions is never mentioned, let alone investigated or examined impartially. The heartbreak part is that the Senate committee members are fully aware of the travesties; have the power to invoke the real inquiry which must be made; and yet do nothing but sit back and allow it all to continue unabated; tacitly encouraging through inaction a continuance with increased confidence of CASA being above the rule of law.
The longer this national disgrace continues, the greater the shame on those who could , but failed to fulfil their obligation to a democratic nation.
Toot - toot....
: the maintenance or administration of what is just especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishments".
If and it is a bloody great big IF (huge) Buckley was a one off - a rarity - an exception; then most of us would sit back, give the keyboard a day off and watch with interest as the case unfolded; allowing the 'law' to run it's course and abide with the decisions made. But, as the old Gershwin song says - "it ain't necessarily so" - is it.
There exists a long list of carefully examined cases of 'Embuggerance'; not one, but many, some of them IMO, matters some serious concern to the fundamental tenets of the justice system, laws and freedoms hard won in our democratic nation. Both the Buckley and Angel Flight matters while significant, are not on the list of extreme embuggerance. For example there is an on going battle between an operator and the CASA, the details of which may not, as yet, be openly discussed which has been described by a couple of top draw 'legal eagles as hair raising. This, once again, is not an isolated 'one off' but one of the many cases which demand serious examination by the judiciary.
There is a long list of 'Senate Inquiry' : there is a warehouse full of industry submission to those inquiry; there is an industry fully aware of and vocal about the behaviour of the regulator. Yet, at the termination of every costly inquiry the deep, dark, repetitive underpinning element of the discussions is never mentioned, let alone investigated or examined impartially. The heartbreak part is that the Senate committee members are fully aware of the travesties; have the power to invoke the real inquiry which must be made; and yet do nothing but sit back and allow it all to continue unabated; tacitly encouraging through inaction a continuance with increased confidence of CASA being above the rule of law.
The longer this national disgrace continues, the greater the shame on those who could , but failed to fulfil their obligation to a democratic nation.
Toot - toot....