Vanessa Scammell

Magistrate Wallington was cleared of all allegations and the complaints were dismissed.

Let me read what the Judicial Commission's response was in relation to this complaint about Wallington referencing the new versus old law commentary.

The questions I ask are these.

Was the magistrate's commentary, as the Commission suggested, not inappropriate?

That it was merely a reference to the way the law had changed?

And is it really clear that the change in law relates only to the charges of indecent assault, specifically the fault element?

In her rulings, the magistrate very cleverly separated the two rulings we're discussing so that number 755 singularly stands alone.

And why didn't the Commission give me an answer to the fact that only two of the 13 charges were mentioned by the magistrate as having the possibility of maybe a different result?

Why would this not be important?

Just recently, an ex-theatre performer named Queenie Van Der Zandt, who Craig has never met or heard of, posted the following when she actively set about removing Craig McLachlan from a role he had won in a main stage play.

And as you recall, in the Sydney Morning Herald article, where C1 made comments of Craig getting off on a

technicality, it needs to be made very clear that the new laws and the fault element were not mentioned by the magistrate in the charge relating to her, that is the touch in the bed scene.

This so-called technicality wasn't even applied to her charges.

Is this weaponising of the magistrate's comments and rulings acceptable?

I will now move on to the ruling number 748.

The women were brave and honest.

In episode 7, I referenced the magistrate's comments on C2's mistaken or untruthful account of her having witnessed a face grab to her colleague C1, when in fact at the time she was offstage vomiting into a garbage bin and wasn't even on the stage.

The magistrate ruled in her assessment of C2 as a witness that...

In relation to this ruling, I submitted to the Commission that...

I asked the Commission, 1.