Bad benchmark
On the subject of the conduct of judicial officers - in the news already this week following Chief Justice Jim Spigelman's remarks about declining manners in contemporary society - NSW magistrate Pat O'Shane was not at her most mannerly yesterday.
In Redfern Court, Ms O'Shane was scheduled to hear an AVO application by former police officer Graham Wardell. But as it happened, Mr Wardell had appeared before Ms O'Shane as a witness during his time as a police officer, and on one occasion she had "found adversely in relation to his credit". Distressed at the time by Ms O'Shane's treatment of him, the then-constable Wardell complained to the Attorney-General.
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