Victoria’s anti-corruption commissioner has complained to the Attorney-General that laws allowing people to challenge his draft findings in court are unnecessarily delaying him tabling his findings in parliament. IBAC
Victoria’s anti-corruption commissioner has complained to the Attorney-General that laws allowing people to challenge his draft findings in court are unnecessarily delaying him tabling his findings in parliament., the Independent Broad-based Anti-Corruption commission’s head, Robert Redlich, said only legislation could fix the problem, which has led to significant delays into the inquiry into alleged corruption of the planning system in Melbourne’s south-east.
Robert Redlich has called on the state government and opposition to support “useful amendments” to IBAC’s governing legislation.to prevent the watchdog tabling its report into allegations of corrupt conduct in the city’s south-east.He said the delays had nothing to do with underfunding but were due to the IBAC Act, which he said needed to be amended so that people named in probes could not clog the reports up in the courts.
The commissioner, a former Supreme Court judge, said this would “aid a much more timely completion of investigations”.“While these challenges can be for a variety of different reasons, the speed with which the litigation is determined is largely under the control of the court and dependent upon the priority which individual judges are prepared to give to the particular litigation,” he wrote.
Redlich called for bipartisan support to amend the IBAC Act to ensure cases of privilege – in which people named in probes claim they do not have to disclose evidence – do not get clogged up in the courts.The commissioner also canvassed a second change to the IBAC Act that would narrow legal challenges on natural justice grounds. The act’s natural justice processes give people who are subject to adverse commentary in corruption probes the chance to respond before the final report is released.
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