McGinty's Legislative Incompetence - he cops it again

CCC Act "bad legislation" says Acting Parliamentary Inspector Ken Martin QC

The Desert Rat notes that the deference shown to the defrocked self-appointed Emperor of WA and failed former Labor Attorney General Jim McGinty, is waning rapidly. A rooster one day, feather duster the next!

Fear and obeisance are a phenomenon of the past - people are now saying what they think.

Was there ever any real respect wonders the Desert Rat?

Just to drive home the point of the incompetent McGinty's legislative mess, the Acting Parliamentary Inspector Ken Martin QC is reported on the front page of today's The West Australian making comment about McGinty's Corruption and Crime Commission Act saying the stand-off between Mr McCusker and the CCC was a product of "bad legislation".

Ken Martin QC was commenting about the CCC's legal attempts to curtail the scrutiny of its activities by Parliamentary Inspector Malcolm McCusker QC. Martin added that if necessary he would fight any any Supreme Court action by the CCC to clarify (code for "limit") issues relating to the powers of the Parliamentary Inspector.

In his dismissal of the most recent failed secret action by the CCC to curtail the activities of the Parliamentary Inspector the Chief Justice Wayne Martin QC said in point 25 of his judgment:

"The powers of the Inspector are set out in s 196 of the Act. They include the power to investigate any aspect of the Commission's operations or any conduct of its officers."

The Desert Rat thinks the CCC are on a hiding to nothing, not to mention squandering taxpayer money on pointless court actions. The discredited McGinty will also continue to get a hiding now that his public power has collapsed.