Boats arrive, lawyers cheer Andrew Bolt July 05 2013 (7:44am) Law journal publisher Richard Ackland, one of the unbroken line of Leftist hosts of Media Watch, sees lawyers having a picnic and once again pronounces it good: After the Tampa affair in August 2001 the Howard government introduced a batch of measures designed to deter ‘’irregular maritime arrivals’’. Among them was an attempt to exclude judges from reviewing migration decisions - the notorious ‘’privative clause’’… The High Court effectively smacked down this audacious executive power grab… Try as politicians might to cut Australian law out of the process, the courts are doing their level best to get it back in. All very well in theory, but this is the circus in practice - as described still by the approving Ackland: Towards the end of the 1990s, 68 per cent of the Federal Court’s work came from Refugee Review Tribunal appeals. When the Federal Magistrates Court, now the Federal Circuit Court, got jurisdiction to review those decisions, its work increased tenfold. Last year migration cases filed in the Federal Magistrates Court represented about 60 per cent of the general federal law workload. We pay for this Jarndyce v Jarndyce logjam not just with our taxes but through the delay of justice to other petitioners.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 23:24:43 +0000
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