…I feel that this article is a little over-emphatic. Any judge is subject to human frailties and as such normal human bias. A Judge of any court below the Supreme Court judges on the bench as an individual. The right of appeal is a very worthy one for this reason.

…In the instance quoted here, the appeal to the Supreme Court proved conducive to justice, as the appeal in the Supreme Court is effectively before a panel of three judges. Surely this is sufficient as it stands to negate any personal negative bias of an individual judge!

…If; “The chief feature of the common law system is that judges’ decisions in pending cases are informed by the decisions of previously settled cases”. (A quote from the Government web site); and a right to appeal any Judges decision can be exercised, personal bias is less relevant in the long run!

…Judge “shopping” is a practice of any good defense lawyer, otherwise dispense with him. In this case, a Judges bias is recognised before the event of the trial. Similarly, the defense has a right to “vet” the Jury and eliminate obvious bias against the defense case.

If it was just bias in our courts, we could think ourselves lucky, but it goes a lot further, a number years ago I exposed a forged/fabricated "official" court document disguised as a STATUTORY DECLARATION the purpose was to pervert the course of justice and to deny me the opportunity to cross-examine in court a public servant who had made outrageous accusations against me. The State and Federal Police along with a number of Statutory Government Departments investigated his accusations and found there was no truth to any of them, but he had "political friends" and "mates" in the court, the CJC claimed "it was just a lack of understanding" they claimed it was done by a JP who was the court registrar at the time, normally this crime would attract charges of PERJURY. It involved a number of court officials including a MAGISTRATE (who after some time "went quietly") so the matter was "white washed", NO ONE SERVED ANY FORM OF PENALTY.
To help eliminate corruption and bias in our courts dramatic changes are needed Judges must come from JUDGES SCHOOL they must NOT come from the ranks of solicitors, they become far to "pally" and end up owing "favors" to their mates.
Solicitors in our Parliaments is an other contributing problem as it is they that appoint the judges, the worst kind of incest, they should be deemed ineligible.