Victorian Government bungle jeopardises corruption cases
Sep 4th, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: AustraliaThe Age: Investigators from Victoria’s corruption watchdog may be unable to testify against allegedly bent officers because of a Brumby Government bungle that has already interrupted a corruption trial.
Victoria’s Chief Prosecutor, Gavin Silbert, SC, warned the County Court last month that an amendment this year to laws that empower the Office of Police Integrity had left “sufficient doubt as to the ability to call the OPI witnesses as part of the prosecution case”.