Article: NSW: NSW Judicial Commission backs Judge Adams


AAP General News (Australia)
01-15-2008
NSW: NSW Judicial Commission backs Judge Adams

SYDNEY, Jan 15 AAP - THE NSW Judicial Commission is backing Justice Michael Adams against
federal government calls for him to be disciplined.

Judge Adams ruled that two Australian secret service agents had kidnapped and falsely
imprisoned the Sydney doctor Izhar ul-Haque on trumped-up terrorism charges.

In a leaked letter, reported by Fairfax, the commission told the head of the federal
Attorney-General's Department, Robert Cornall, that Justice Adams had acted within his
rights in ruling that the detention of Dr ul-Haque and interviews carried out by the two
unnamed ASIO officers had been improper and ...

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