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Vasta caning makes case for judicial commission

Like the recently formed National Anti-Corruption Commission, a federal judicial commission has been a long time coming.

Michael PellyLegal editor
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Judge Salvatore Vasta has become the most convincing argument for a federal judicial commission.

Judge Vasta was excoriated this week for the unlawful imprisonment of a father of two during a property dispute in 2018, with Federal Court justice Michael Wigney awarding damages of $309,450.

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Michael Pelly was The Australian Financial Review’s legal editor
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