On June 24, 2020, as news of the findings of an inquiry into allegations of sexual harassment by Dyson Heydon rocked the legal community, the Victorian Legal Services Commissioner sent a mass email under the heading “It’s time to end the culture of silence on sexual harassment”. Yet at the same time, the person who headed the High Court for the first five years of Heydon’s tenure – former chief justice Murray Gleeson – was reported as saying only this: “I have nothing at all to say.”