The High Court has, 7-zip, overturned an entire Federal Government judicial structure. But it’s not as if the Howard Government wasn’t warned, repeatedly, that this might happen.
Australian Military Court
Court fiasco leaves government scrambling
The Federal Government was caught by surprise with the ruling of the nation’s top military court as invalid, and is now in a mad scramble to pass legislation that restores some order to Australia’s Defence Force.
Military court brought down by a balls up
Australia’s top military court has been ruled constitutionally invalid, leaving 170 cases in question and the military justice system in disarray — and it was all brought down over a pair of testicles.
Military justice in tatters
The case that brought down the nation’s highest court might have seemed more at home on Big Brother, says Joel Gibson.
