The state government aims to introduce unprecedented legislation blocking compensation claims linked to the Lawyer X scandal.
This includes those found to have been wrongfully imprisoned and Gobbo, who received a $2.88 million settlement from Victoria Police in a 2010 lawsuit., this time for up to $30 million in compensation. Her case is due in court next month.
The State Civil Liability Bill, due to be introduced to parliament on Tuesday, is expected to receive fierce opposition from human rights lawyers.Australian Lawyers Alliance spokesman Greg Barns, SC, said the bill “sets a dangerous precedent”. Gobbo was a barrister representing some of Victoria’s most notorious gangsters when she became a police informer three times – in 1995, 1999 and 2005.Two criminal convictions have already been overturned because of Gobbo’s role as an informer, and a third case – that ofFaruk Orman was convicted of murdering gunman Victor Peirce, who was shot dead in his parked car in Port Melbourne in 2002.
Orman’s lawyers accuse police of conducting a malicious prosecution of their client, false imprisonment, misconduct in public office and breach of duty of care. Symes, the attorney-general, said: “We haven’t shied away from confronting the difficult truths that arose from the royal commission. At the same time, we acted to ensure events that led to it will never happen again.
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