BREAKING The Lawyer X royal commission will not make public findings that any of the individuals named during the inquiry may have broken the law
The Lawyer X royal commission will not make public findings that any of the individuals named during the inquiry may have broken the law.
"Any charges must then be determined in a court on the criminal standard requiring proof beyond reasonable doubt where anything Counsel Assisting or this Commission has said about them is not evidence. The submissions of counsel assisting Chris Winneke QC run to thousands of pages, with Victoria Police, former chief commissioners Simon Overland and Graham Ashton and some of Australia's most notorious crooks including convicted drug bosses Mr Mokbel and Francesco Madafferi filing submissions in response.
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