Federal and state chief justices wrote to their judges this week asking them not to criticise their colleagues or courts in public, after Justice Ian Jackman’s remarkable night out at the Rule of Law Education Centre on 11 June.
Jackman named and shamed six Federal Court judges for taking at least 2.3 years (and some much longer) to deliver judgments, and said he wanted no part of the courts’ self-congratulation about their performance.
But he said delay — across all courts — was not his greatest concern for the rule of law.
Jackman said his greater concern was the way the High Court had usurped the power of parliament on immigration, and embraced ridiculous concepts such as the implied freedom of political communication.
