James Glissan

He can get bail from the magistrate, from the judge, and then the prosecution can hand up something that's called a Section 40 bail stay.

And practically what that means is it overrides the court's decision.

So the court can give him bail, and if they hand up that certificate, he can still stay inside until he makes another application, which would have to go higher, likely to the Supreme Court.

Right.

So that may have been something that factored in.

It may not have.

But I'm very interested to see what happens when he applies for bail.

Where's the public interest?

Look, okay.

I promise this will be the last distinction I draw between the US and here.

But in the US, when you do something like this, it's a massive media event.

In the US.

And it's designed and intended to be a media event with the arrest.

That is not allowed.

They have case law on that, which means they have judge law saying that it's unconstitutional and infringes rights.

The only purpose is to humiliate somebody.

Here, we don't have anything like that.

Now, the major problem that I have with this, and I know a lot of people have, is it was unnecessary and it looks very heavy-handed.

And I've spoken about this before, but where you have such heavy media presence for the arrest...

the rest of the country knows about the arrest before it ever becomes a court, before a court, and before it becomes a matter in which he has legal representation.