Quadrant, April 1st, 2007
THERE IS SOMETHING profoundly disturbing about High Court Judge Michael Kirby referring to the late Sydney lawyer John Marsden's paedophilia as "faults and foibles". This disturbance is further compounded by the fact that our legal system protected John Marsden's name, allowing him to continue to practise as a prominent Sydney lawyer after he was found guilty as a paedophile who had sexually abused an eight-year-old boy. The offence took place in the late 1960s and the conviction was recorded in 2001.
Marsden then sued Channel Seven, in Australia's longest-running defamation case, for $7 mi...
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