Greg Barns

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Australian True Crime · Emergency Episode: Lindsay Clancy's Mistrial, Prison Overcrowding and Character References · 8 Sep 2026 podcast

Irresponsible again, but also

reflects a very troubling mindset on the part of the Commissioner and Victoria Police.

In other words, not doing what judges and magistrates do every day, which is to take account of the conditions in which someone would be kept as a factor in considering bail.

I thought it was a very dangerous comment.

Not the first one from this Commissioner.

He's uh weighed into the political realm

previously and uh it's something he shouldn't be doing.

Uh and he shouldn't be giving that sort of directive.

I wonder whether it passed through the in-house legal department, but it's also a breach of the human rights charter in Victoria.

But he strikes me this police commissioner, I think he comes from New Zealand, he strikes me as quite political, which of course commissioners should not be.

So there's a move around Australia now to curtail the use of character references.

So many of our listeners and watchers would have given a character reference for a person, or they may have been the recipient of a character reference if they've had the misfortune to be in court.

And they're very useful to courts, depending on as Lex will tell you as someone who sat on the bench for many years, depending on the content, depending on the crime, and uh depending on who wrote

them and whether they had knowledge of the offending.

And they're a useful tool for courts to take into account in terms of mitigating the offense.

And that's been the case for many, many years.

There's a high court authority on it called Ryan.

It's standard practice.

So the Tasmanian Attorney General, who's a guy Barnett who's never short of a populist measure or hasn't uh let's just put it this way, there's not one populist measure he hasn't seen that he didn't

And like, said last week, and and it was passed unanimously by the Parliament.

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