The probe found former DPP Shane Drumgold 'lost objectivity' and didn't act with 'fairness and detachment'. 9News
It found several "serious findings" against Drumgold, including that he breached his duty of conduct and at times "lost objectivity and did not act with fairness and detachment" during the trial.
"Drumgold constructed a false narrative to support a claim of legal professional privilege," Sofronoff said. To amend the language used in the Victims of Crime Act to include different language to identify the status of an investigation like "when police decide to charge a person with an offence" instead of "a person being charged".To devise a more consistent approach in compiling briefs of evidence and provide refresher training to all officers on this.
Protocols be formed to "affirm the desirability" of police witnesses being available to legal representatives for a defendant. "This examination has found that Mr Drumgold's practice whilst DPP was appellate, meaning that the facts and evidence had already been determined and what was in issue was the findings or sentence based on those facts," the government said.The government has condemned Sofronoff's decision to leak the report to media outlets ahead of its formal release.
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