The below article appeared in the Melbourne Age and extracts of it were published in the Australian Financial Review in 2020.
Except for comments added by the writer in the context of Australia’s involvement in destabilizing the government of DS Najib in Malaysia for over a decade, the rest of the article below is attributed to the authors identified in the article.
The heading in bold is attributed to the publishers of this blog.
CBD Melbourne: Questions over counsel as Heydon goes to lunch
Samantha Hutchinson and Colin Kruger
July 2, 2020 — 11.59pm
It seems former High Court judge Dyson Heydon has found a regular lunch partner as he battles an independent investigation’s findings that he sexually harassed six female associates.
Heydon, who continues to deny any allegations of sexual harassment, was spotted at Mosman’s Public Dining Room at Balmoral Beach on Wednesday with fellow Sydney silk, Francis Douglas, QC. CBD spies inside the restaurant spotted Heydon enjoying a beer as he waited for Douglas, who practises out of the prestigious Tenth Floor Chambers.
Douglas and Heydon did not return requests for comment on Thursday, but it’s apparent the pair are more than passing acquaintances.
As the Sydney Morning Herald reported, Heydon was spotted on the day before the sexual harassment allegations went public, joining a friend for lunch over Merlot at the members-only Australian Club on Sydney’s Macquarie Street.
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And who was the chap who he was having lunch with? Turns out it was Douglas, who also would not respond to questions about whether he would represent the former High Court judge in court if it was ever required.
Indeed, it’s difficult to determine who Heydon’s counsel is given Speed and Stracey, the prominent tax lawyers who have represented Heydon, are no longer responding to journalists’ inquiries.
OFF THE LIST
Heydon lost his licence to serve as a barrister this week after failing to renew his practising certificate with the NSW Bar Council ahead of its expiry on June 30. He is not the only high-profile silk in the non-renewing category.
As of July 1, former Australian chief justice Murray Gleeson, QC, had not renewed his practising certificate with the NSW Bar Council, nor had former High Court judge Michael McHugh, SC.
The NSW Bar Council did not respond to repeated requests for information regarding the two senior justices on Thursday. McHugh’s Eleven Wentworth Chambers did not respond to a question regarding his certificate and whether he planned to renew.
Of course, the High Court investigation into Heydon’s alleged misconduct recorded a claim that Gleeson and McHugh were told of their colleague’s behaviour. Gleeson headed the court for a decade until 2008, while McHugh served on the court from 1989 until 2005.
Details from the report included an account of how McHugh’s then-associate Sharona Coutts claimed that in 2005, Heydon’s associate Rachael Patterson-Collins had said “Heydon tried to kiss me and I had to push him off me!”
Coutts told the investigator she had informed McHugh, who allegedly replied that he was “truly shocked”. A day later, McHugh allegedly told her he had passed the information on to Gleeson. Gleeson has rejected an account of the events as “false”, without going into detail.
REGIME CHANGE AUSTRALIA AND THE MORALS OF “PEOPLE IN GLASS HOUSES”
Reading this article in Malaysia and other Regime Change victim countries in Asia one can be forgiven for being shocked at the hypocrisy of the Australian media who pursued DS Najib and his government at the behest of Soros and the NED.
Australia and its national broadcaster the ABC, its other government funded media organization the SBS, all played an active role in destabilizing the Najib government in Malaysia. Yet none of them were brave or concerned enough to shine a spotlight in the deeply embedded corrupted judiciary and government in their own country, Australia.
Queensland, a state best known for its long history of embedded racism at all levels is currently the subject of a documentary (being currently filmed) by a group of documentary makers with several high-profile Netflix documentaries to their credit.
The material for the Netflix documentary appears to have come from a massive hack and dump of sensitive and confidential material hacked from the “secured” email servers of judges and the legal professions in 4 major Australian capital cities.
Due to prevailing laws prohibiting the use and dissemination of hacked material, we are unable to publish any of the material (which we do not possess or have access to) obtained by hackers nor direct readers to its sources on a Dark Web site.
Gopal Raj Kumar 