- Former judge Marcus Einfeld jailed for two years over traffic offence lies
- The Herald Sun
- 20/03/2009 Make a Comment (2)
- Contributed by: The Rooster ( 258 articles in 2009 )
MARCUS Einfeld has been sentenced to at least two years' jail for repeatedly lying about a traffic offence.
Justice Bruce James today imposed a maximum three-year sentence on the 70-year-old retired judge at the New South Wales Supreme Court.
Einfeld had pleaded guilty to perjury and making a false statement with intent to pervert the course of justice to avoid a $75 speeding ticket in 2006.
His lawyer, Ian Barker QC, said Einfeld's tireless work for the disadvantaged and other mitigating factors justified the imposition of a non-custodial term.
But Wayne Roser, SC, for the Crown, argued Einfeld should be jailed, saying the counts were "in the worst case category" of such offences.
Justice James said the retired judge engaged in "deliberate, premeditated perjury" in order to avoid incurring demerit points on his driver's licence.
He also concluded Einfeld had engaged in "planned criminal activity", detailing the numerous lies in his police statement when he asserted he was not driving his car when it was clocked at 10km/h over the speed limit in the Sydney suburb of Mosman.
Justice Bruce James today imposed a maximum three-year sentence on the 70-year-old retired judge at the New South Wales Supreme Court.
Einfeld had pleaded guilty to perjury and making a false statement with intent to pervert the course of justice to avoid a $75 speeding ticket in 2006.
His lawyer, Ian Barker QC, said Einfeld's tireless work for the disadvantaged and other mitigating factors justified the imposition of a non-custodial term.
But Wayne Roser, SC, for the Crown, argued Einfeld should be jailed, saying the counts were "in the worst case category" of such offences.
Justice James said the retired judge engaged in "deliberate, premeditated perjury" in order to avoid incurring demerit points on his driver's licence.
He also concluded Einfeld had engaged in "planned criminal activity", detailing the numerous lies in his police statement when he asserted he was not driving his car when it was clocked at 10km/h over the speed limit in the Sydney suburb of Mosman.
Source: https://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25215017-5005961,00.html
Now we need this to transcend to the Family Law Courts and jail all those that commit perjery including the family lawyers who write those most vile, provocative, untrue, conflict driven affidavits.
If litigants and their solicitors who perjered themselves in the Family Law proceedings were jailed for false accusations, lies, affidavits and their general lying behaviour, they could not build enough jails and the existing ones would be full. Some of the most dishonest people you will ever meet work in the family law industry.
Enough is enough. Jail for people who commit perjury in the Family Court is what I say.
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