Other things being roughly equal, Supreme Court Justices of all political persuasions are best served by like-minded clerks. |
Justices adjourned the case so the youth offending team can prepare a pre-sentence report considering all possible sentences. |
The Justices are perfectly entitled, should they think fit, to convict absent such evidence. |
The history of this is in fact set out in the joint judgment of Justices Gummow and Hayne in Angas Law Services. |
Having said that we could not accept the wider proposal we need not say that we refuse to optate together amongst the Justices of the Peace. |
Nevertheless, you can understand why the Justices didn't want Eastman turning the High Court into a three ring circus. |