Date: November 5, 2024Author: Editor, cairnsnews 22 Comments
Federal Court Judge Angus Stewart believes it is alright for Muslim Senator Mehreen Faruqi to defame Queen Elizabeth and the Royal Family on the day she died by saying she “cannot mourn the leader of a racist empire built on stolen lives, land and wealth of colonised peoples,” but Pauline telling the Muslim lady to “piss off back to Pakistan”. ” is not allowed according to Section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act.
The Hon Angus Morkel Stewart, is a former Oxford-trained, South African barrister and Rhodes scholar, who was appointed senior counsel in NSW. Judge Stewart almost certainly is on the square and a senior member of the old boys club.
Judging by his antecedents he would have relished taking a spoke out of Hanson’s ideological wheel. This is why no litigant or defendant should appear in a court without a jury. Chapter III of the Commonwealth Constitution guarantees a jury trial if requested in any court. Unfortunately run-of-the-mill legal practitioners are unaware or hide this Constitutional fact.
Now Pauline should know just how bad the entire Australian legal system has become under the unlawful duopoly government. Her former Senator, Rod Culleton, when he was sustaining mortal blows from politically appointed judges, said he tried to explain to her in 2016 how the entire legal structure of Australia was run off the rails in 1973 when Whitlam removed the Crown.
Culleton said at the time Hanson did not understand how broken the system had become and was not interested in fixing it. Now she will be aware that justice is unaffordable for any litigant or defendant and available only to politically correct millionaires or Islamic immigrants.
Justice Stewart ruled her social media post was an “angry ad hominem attack” on Ms Faruqi and she has been ordered to delete the post from her X profile and cover her opponent’s legal fees believed to be around $900,000.
This decision, if it stands, has draconian ramifications for every social media user who feels they have been defamed.
Judge Stewart’s antecedents:
Judge, Federal Court of Australia: 25.02.2019
Location: Sydney
Appointed by the Liberal Party
Other Commissions & Appointments:
Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory – Additional Judge
Justice Stewart is a graduate of the University of Natal (BA LLB cum laude) and the University of Oxford (BCL first class) where he was a Rhodes Scholar (Natal 1992). From 1996 to 2010, he practised at the Bar in South Africa, being appointed Senior Counsel there in 2006.
Justice Stewart practised at the Bar in Sydney from 2011 to February 2019, being appointed Senior Counsel for New South Wales in 2014. His practice at the Bar spanned public law and private law with particular specialisation in shipping and international trade, commercial disputes and international commercial arbitration. Justice Stewart was appointed a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) in 2014.
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