“I’ve often said and I’m sure nobody will argue
that I may not be the smartest lawyer in the room, and if you were in a room
with me and I was the smartest lawyer it would be a good time to leave it,” he
said.
“But there’s more to being a Chief Justice than
a black letter lawyer. There are plenty of them already on the Supreme Court,
and I don’t aspire to compete with them for intellectual rigour.”
So said Tim Carmody, the Newman Government’s appointment for the
position of Chief Justice of Queensland.
Call me old-fashioned, but I’d have thought that being the smartest
lawyer in the room, or amongst the smartest, was at least one of the criteria
to be the State’s top judicial officer. Isn’t
the public of Queensland entitled to expect intellectual rigour (whether or not a black
letter lawyer)? Shouldn't the Queensland Government be looking for someone of the calibre of Bathurst, Spigelman, Gleeson, or Street?
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