Greg Barns
Barrister and writer
Greg Barns is an Australian barrister, political commentator and WikiLeaks Party national campaign director. He is the author of several books, including “What’s wrong with the Liberal Party”.
That a lawyer acting for a person whose liberty has been stripped from him is denied access to all the evidence in the case against his client, is morally and ethically corrupt, writes Greg Barns.
Today, Gold Coast doctor, Mohammed Haneef will have been held in detention, without any charges being laid against him, for eight days.
Will rock music entrepreneur Glenn Wheatley go to jail for tax fraud? The answer, if recent sentences are anything to go by, is that it’s a distinct possibility. And Mr Wheatley is likely to get a jail term of some length if Victorian County Court Judge Tim Wood determines jail time is warranted.
What if Dr Haneef’s reason for buying a one way ticket to India is simply because he wanted to, as he says, visit his wife Firdous, who is ill, and the couple’s new born baby in Bangalore? asks Greg Barns.
Check out an intriguing judgment handed down yesterday by Victorian Supreme Court Justice Kevin Bell which prevents mega law firm Corrs and the barristers it has briefed from acting for the Legal Services Board in their quest to stop Zarah Garde-Wilson renewing her practicing certificate, writes Greg Barns.
You've got to hand it to the Labor Party. It is, as we all know, perhaps the worst excuse for a progressive liberal party in the democratic world, writes Greg Barns.
The failure by ASIC to win its insider trading case against Citigroup in the Federal Court yesterday will ending up costing taxpayers millions of dollars in legal and administrate fees.
John Howard’s extraordinary suspension of the rule of law in the Northern Territory should have the legal profession manning the barricades. But where are the Chief Justice of the Northern Territory, Brian Martin, the Northern Territory Law Society, the Northern Territory Bar Association, and even the national bodies -- the Australian Bar Association and the Law Council of Australia? So far, nowhere to be seen or heard.
Well well well, so those of us who thought John Howard had a liking for authoritarianism have had our hunch confirmed today, with the PM’s response to the Northern Territory Government’s report on child abuse in Aboriginal communities.
If this were America, we would get a chance to talk to jury members in the Chris Hurley trial, and find out just how it is they came to the conclusion yesterday in Townsville, that Hurley was not guilty of the manslaughter of Cameron Mulrunji Doomadgee in the Palm Island watchhouse on the evening of 19 November 2004.
