Court Pans Judge for Gross Delay

Source: The Australian

Taxpayers will foot the legal bills for a rehearing of a family law case involving two special needs children after a judge’s gross and deplorable seven year delay in delivering her judgement led to her making substantial errors. Federal Court judge Anne Demack not only took seven years to hand down her decision, she lost the court file. When she finally delivered her judgement, she failed to take into account of relevant evidence, made material mistakes of fact and gave inadequate reasons.