The former High Court judge tasked with deciding if criminal charges should be laid in the Lawyer X matter wants to quit because the public prosecutor will not charge the Victoria Police officers he has collected evidence against.
, and one that resulted in the quashing of three criminal convictions. The scandal centred around Gobbo, a former gangland barrister, being used as a police informant.
“In light of the Director [of Public Prosecution’s] past refusal of permission for [the Office of the Special Investigator] to file charges of relevant offences, and the Director’s recent identification of considerations likely to result in her refusing to permit OSI to file any other charges of relevant offences, I consider that there is no longer any point in OSI persisting with investigating and determining whether there is sufficient evidence to establish the commission of relevant...
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