The Final Deadline for truth-seeking Evan Whitton
18 July 2018 – The Australian – TheNation: Final deadline for truth-seeking journalist Evan Whitton.
Evan Whitton has been reporting on corruption for more than twenty years. Five times winner of the Walkley Award for National Journalism , in 1967, 1970, 1973, 1974 and 1975. He was named Journalist of the Year in 1983 for for his “courage and innovation” in reporting of the New South Wales Wran Royal Commission, and described the Queenlsand Fitzgerald enquiry as ‘The biggest and most important story I ever worked on; the experience of a career.’
Evan Whitton received the Walkley Award for National Journalism five times and was Journalist of the Year 1983 for “courage and innovation” in reporting a corruption inquiry. He was editor of The National Times, Chief Reporter and European Correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and Reader in Journalism at the University of Queensland. He was a columnist on the online legal journal Justinian www.justinian.com.au
External Link: The Truth in Justice Campaign
From the courts themselves
Best quote of 2009 – Heydon J on the state of the Australian litigation system
“The torpid languor of one hand washes the drowsy procrastination of the other. Are these phenomena indications of something chronic in the modern state of litigation? Or are they merely acute and atypical breakdowns in an otherwise functional system? Are they signs of a trend, or do they reveal only an anomaly?”
Aon Risk Services Australia Limited v Australian National University [2009] HCA 27 per Heydon J.
See also, Re Arnotts Limited v Trade Practices Commission [1990] FCA 473 – it took over 190 days of court time to argue how many biscuits you have to sell to have a dominant influence in the market.
September 2001 – Report on Alleged Contempt In Relation to the Draft Report of Bron McKillop on Inquisitorial Systems [In response to a concern raised by Evan Whitton]
July 1994- Bron McKillop – Inquisitorial Systems of Criminal Justice – The Grand Jury and ICAC
9 October 2014 – Note on Ludo [Ludovic Kennedy] from Mr Whitton
Comments by Mr Whitton from the ‘disqus’ website
Submissions
29 March 2016 – Submission to the Royal Commission on the role of the criminal justice system in relation to sex abuse of children
15 April 2015 – Submission on proposed organised crime inquiry by Mr Whitton
4 November 2013 – Second Submission to the Productivity Commission by Mr Whitton
First Submission to the Productivity Commission by Mr Whitton
26 November 2012 – Submission to to Royal Commission on Sexual Abuse of Children Inquiry by Mr Whitton
29 July 2013 – ABC Radio Late Night Live – Our Legal Flaws discussion of the abuse inquiry
Radio and Television
Articles
15 May 2018 – Evan Whitton – Our get-the-guilty-off legal system
16 February 2018 – Evan Whitton – Note to students
13 January 2018 – Pursue Democracy – Bare faced lawyers: confessions of the legal profession – a report on the work of Evan Whitton
15 November 2017 – Evan Whitton – A racket funded by taxpayers
10 October 2017 – Evan Whitton – London’s weird history
19 August 2017 – Tasmanian Times – Why and how English law is a taxpayer-funded racket, luckily for Cardinal George Pell
17 June 2017 -Tasmnian Times – Who runs politics? The Dead Camel Party? The Shitters’ Party?
26 July 2016 – Justinian – How Rupert Murdoch went bad
14 June 2016 – Tasmanian Times – Evan and Noela Whitton – Rupert Murdoch: Our Part in His Evil Upfall
1 June 2016 – Tasmanian Times – How Taxpayers Are Obliged to Fund a Racket
24 February 2016 – Justinian – Law Timeline
7 September 2015 – Tasmanian Times – How English politicians, judges and lawyers went for the money
8 June 2015 – Tasmanian Times – Famous historian inaccurate on Napoleon – Evan Whitton gently corrects him
16 February 2015 – Tasmanian Times – How the law protects serial rapists and organised criminals
28 January 2014 – Independent Australia – How rape victims are denied justice
19 December 2013 – Independent Australia – Making the law faster, simpler, fairer – and cheaper
4 December 2013 – Online Opinion – Savings for justice
28 October 2013 Evan Whitton reported in the Tasmanian Times on HLA Hart and Positivism
23 August 2013 – Independent Australia – The parliament of Australia (n lawyers)
30 July 2013 – Civil Liberties Australia – How committals frustrate civil liberties
1 July 2013 – Online Opinion – The Prince of Denmark Defence
23 May 2013 – Civil Liberties Australia – Evan Whitton “How to save the innocent from prison”
22 April 2013 – Installation of Vic Carroll as Doctor of Letters
18 April 2013 – Independent Australia – Adversarial Justice and the Gadarene Swine fallacy
17 April 2013 – Text of Evan Whitton talk to Sylvania Waters (Sydney) Probus Club
15 March 2013 – Terry Sweetman (Courier-Mail) “Harry Gibbs had a chance to take a stand – and didn’t”.
8 March 2013 – IndependentAustralia.net – Justice system discriminates against abused women
22 February 2013 – Online-Opinion – Civil liberties in the old deep north
11 January 2013 – Independent Australia – How the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse should be run
8 January 2013 – Online-Opinion – Optimising the inquiry into child sex abuse
Letter to the Editor – Financial Times
29 November 2012 – Independent Australia – Looking back to avoid looking forward
1 November 2012 – Independent Australia – Why white collar criminals “love” judges
25 October 2012 – Independent Australia – Turning a blind eye to white collar crime
9 October 2012 – Online-Opinion – Unfair trials
3 July 2012 – Independent Australia – Napoleon’s greatest achievement
14 June 2012 – The Atlantic- America’s English-Style Legal System Evolved to Conceal Truth, Not Reveal It
4 January 2012 – Online-Opinion – Techniques of internet journalism
8 October 2011 – Courier Mail – Icons “Des Sturgess” and the avarice of lawyers
18 May 2011 – Racketeer-influenced and Corrupt Organisations (RICO) submission
1 October 2010 – Sydney Morning Herald – We should look to Germany for justice [reform of the legal system]
1 April 2010 – Courier Mail – Shining light during state’s darkest days
17 May 2007 – Online-Opinion – Serial liars: how lawyers get the money
28 June 2006 – Phillip Adams interviews Evan Whitton
7 April 2003 – Online-Opinion – 21 reasons you won’t get justice from the adversarial court system
1994 – The Essential Bradman
Summer 1985 – Mens Journal Quarterly – Getting It In – The life and Times of a Newspaperman
April 1984 – Justice K.H. Marks, Supreme Court of Victoria Law Institute Journal – “Thinking up” about the right of silence and unsworn statements
Earlier articles by Evan Whitton published in Justinian
Evan Whitton – Books Online
Review comments on Evan’s books
OUR CORRUPT LEGAL SYSTEM – Why Everyone is a Victim (Except Rich Criminals) (2009)
Foreword by Dr Robert Moles (rrp $35, Bookpal, 2010)
The full text of the book is now available here – it will load as a pdf file – owing to a quirk in publication, index items are all + 1.
18 September 2010 – The Age – Yes, the law can be an ass
16 May 2010 – The Sun Herald – Putting corporate criminals in the box
30 May 2010 – Sydney Morning Herald – Land where the criminals roam free
21 May 2010 – The Australian Financial Review – How the cartel has created an imbroglio review of Our Corrupt Legal System
Book launched – Glebe, Sydney, 27 May 2010
SERIAL LIARS (2005) – a new online book about LAWYERS by Evan Whitton
It challenges the very operation of the common law system, and of the lawyers who do very nicely out of it.
Review of Serial Liars by Bob Moles
THE CARTEL – Lawyers and Their Nine Magic Tricks – Evan Whitton 1998 full text here
TRIAL BY VOODOO – Evan Whitton 1994 full text here
THE HILLBILLY DICTATOR 1989 full text here
CAN OF WORMS II 1987 full text here
AMAZING SCENES 1987 full text here
Noela Whitton Articles and Book
Book: How to Stay Friends With Your Children
PDF version: 15 July 1984 – The New York Times – The World Of Pere-LaChaise
15 July 1984 – The New York Times – The World Of Pere-LaChaise
23 August 1983 – Sydney Morning Herald – In Love and in Paris: It was worth the wait
12 March 1983 – Sydney Morning Herald – A Perfect Job for Uriah Heep: Film Extra
Book by Elizabeth O’Brien
Didgeridoo: Words of Aboriginal Origin (1989) Jacaranda Press
Because of the graphics (pictures) in this book, this file may take several minutes to download depending upon the speed of your connection