I knew him….

‘Someone must have traduced Joseph K, for without having done anything wrong, he was arrested one fine morning.’

What we have just done to Justice Lasry defies both belief and all decency.

Yes, we have dreadful problems in the way we dispose of cases in our courts, but reacting in anything like this way can only dint confidence in our judges even further. 

And make it harder for them to do their job, and for us to get the best people.  Why accept a position where you are accorded the dignity and respect not of a figure out of Franz Kafka, but of a Commissar in a novel by Boris Pasternak?

I have some experience of these things.  Good judges don’t run scared.  Nor should any judge be seen to owe fealty to the civil service of the government.

There is something rotten in the State of Victoria.