After the travesty of the Appeal Court majority's rejection of Cardinal Pell's bid to have his conviction overturned, the COVID lockdowns' disruption saw unresolved questions about the state’s judicial leadership shuffled out of mind. That's a problem because the courts are operating again and those questions remain unaddressed

The errors identified by the High Court in the Victorian Court of Appeal's majority ruling against George Pell were no trivial missteps. Justices Maxwell and Ferguson were judged to have misapprehended their role in assessing jury verdicts, which a layman might capture in two simple words, 'gross incompetence'. That Victorians have been denied an explanation for this travesty furthers the disgrace