A fight is emerging in the peak body for Victorian barristers over a push to endorse the Indigenous Voice to parliament, with one barrister asking colleagues to remain neutral and avoid engaging in politics.
In an email sent to some members of the Victorian Bar, barrister James Catlin urges recipients to sign a notice calling for an urgent general meeting and for members to reject any moves to endorse the Voice, saying such a move would undermine the Bar’s reputation for independence.
“The woke left won last year’s Bar Council elections,” says barrister James Catlin in an email to colleagues.Catlin claims that following last year’s Bar Council elections, the “woke Left” now has a controlling vote on the Bar’s elected governing body, which represents 2200 practicing Victorian barristers.
He said those members intended to push for an endorsement of the Voice, following the example set by the“There is a significant unhappiness at the Victoria Bar regarding the Bar Council possibly endorsing the Voice,” he said in the May 3 email, seen by this masthead.“There is a strong undercurrent of anger amongst the membership that this Bar Council may endorse the Voice without consulting the members unless something is done to upset these plans.
Differences of opinion about a public endorsement by the Victorian Bar have been broached in the media in recent weeks.
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