Senator Culleton Holds The Key

Senator Culleton Is A Threat To The Politico-judicial-financial Complex

A lot of people don't seem to like Senator Culleton. Now nobody's perfect and Culleton is certainly an outspoken colourful character. Sure he has made some mistakes. However, what many of us see is a politician who is a rock solid supporter of bank reform. A supporter of a Royal Commission as part of growing moves toward justice for victims of bank misconduct and a man who cares about due legal process and our traditional Constitutional protections.

Here are some of the things he is concerned with and pressuring the government about right now:

• The deliberate undermining of our Constitution by the government and High Court.
• The sabotage of our legal system by denying the right to trial by jury.
• The conflict of interest whereby a Judge can sit in judgement in a case involving his own bank or a bank he has a substantial shareholding in.

Looks like Senator Culleton has upset the politico-judicial-financial complex.

Now, Culleton is also disturbing the President of the Queensland Law Society, Bill Potts, who claims Culleton's letter to Queensland Judge Rinaudo could be seen as an attempt to pervert the course of justice, and that the judiciary needed to be able to operate free from threats or inducement.

"Judges of our country are able to go about their duty without fear or favour and they should be able to do it without threats coming from senators," he said. "Any attempt to interfere with the independence of the judiciary is a very slippery slope."

Potts reckons there needs to be a separation of powers between politicians and judges. [Well we all know that's how it's supposed to work].

"If they think the court can be influenced by threats or by promises or by some form on inducement — by any person but in particular a parliamentarian — that impinges upon the very independence that everybody deserves when they come before a court."

Queensland Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath said on Tuesday she had asked police to investigate. She appears to be working with Senator Brandis to crucify Culleton. You'd think that these characters would have an interest in protecting out legal system from perversion, corruption and skullduggery.

Anyone who has spent anytime at all investigating unconscionable banking knows very well of cases where there has been a perversion of justice. We have seen cases where judges make a point of sitting on cases involving their own bankers. The problem is so severe we even included a point about it in our draft terms of reference for a Royal Commission - see point 8 excerpt below

8) Investigate potential conflicts of interest and inequities regarding the function of the courts in bank related litigation such as:

  i. the prevalence and the probity of having judges preside over bank litigation when they have possibly acted regularly for banks prior to their elevation to the bench – and, in particular, for the same bank currently in litigation

  ii. the judiciary currently having no requirements of a public listing of assets and financial interests and relationships; this absence deserves exposure and rectification, with subsequent proscription of a judge presiding where there is a manifest personal conflict of interest.

  iii. the volume of lawyers with a self-interest in supporting banks makes it very difficult for bank victims to get competent and genuinely independent legal assistance.

  iv. the lack of Equality of Arms. When a bank takes on a customer the customer must have equal access to legal expertise. Without this a fair hearing is impossible and justice unobtainable.

At the very least any Judge that has a conflict of interest should recuse themselves from the case. Mr Potts needs to realise it is the influence of bankers on the judicial system that is the problem. Culleton is dead right in saying that the Courts need to be watched. BRN took Queenslander Rita Troiani into the office of Kelly O'Dwyer - Minister for Revenue and Financial Services - on Monday after the #TTTRally. Once Ms O'Dwyer studies Rita's case (as she promised)  she will well and truly understand Culleton's concerns about Justice in Queensland.

Culleton has a lot of enemies - some through his mistakes but many because he is drawing the public's attention to issues that the bankers, Courts and politicians do not want you to see and think about.

What you need to do ... is think about it. Log into this website and add your story of bank and Judicial misconduct. The only way you can protect our Constitution, bring about a truly fair and clean legal system, stop criminal banking is to join in right here.

Our leaders have proven over and over again .... they cannot be trusted. Criminals and cronies are protected.

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