Chapter 20 - Relations with the judiciary
Inquiries into Conduct of a Judge
As was mentioned above, apart from an
unsuccessful motion in the Senate in 1980 to establish a joint select committee
to examine certain business interests of the Chief Justice of the High Court,
the only precedent for the Houses contemplating action under section 72 of
the Constitution is provided by two Senate select committees in 1984 and a
statutory parliamentary commission of inquiry established in 1986 to inquire
into the conduct of Mr Justice Murphy of the High Court.
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