The Law Eugene McGee

[jo172]

The biggest issue is the culture of looking after your mates, cause any person who has any idea about how things work would think in all probabilities that Mcgee was cut some slack by some people.....

Elaborate?

You overestimate the power of Eugene McGee, he was a smash-bang lawyer of no big connections or heritage. He was an ex-cop FFS.

 

[rayven]

You overestimate the power of Eugene McGee, he was a smash-bang lawyer of no big connections or heritage. He was an ex-cop FFS.

The way this statement looks is you can't see the wood for the tree's or your quite ignorant of this whole drama or your part of the very culture that I'm mentioning

or a combination?

 

[jo172]

The way this statement looks is you can't see the wood for the tree's or your quite ignorant of this whole drama or your part of the very culture that I'm mentioning

or a combination?

And you're going straight on the attack on the poster rather than commenting on any issues or indeed the thread topic, let alone your grammar is evidence of a paranoid, delusional mind.

 

[rayven]

SA magistrate Peter Liddy was a serial pederast. He left a trail of broken lives and smashed reputations, but his strangest legacy is the story of a hundred lawyers, buried Spanish treasure and a TV producer who didn’t take yes for an answer. Hendrik Gout has the remarkable story.


Peter Liddy thought he’d got away with it. The respected magistrate was connected to power. He was power itself. He could – and did – send people to jail

http://lawisanass-wingate.blogspot.com.au/2010/07/liddy-affair-sa.html

Liddy got Eugene McGee onto the case. McGee had long been Liddy’s buddy. They were both lawyers. The Independent Weekly has seen McGee in an engrossing little home movie made by the Police Historic Society in 1993. (Liddy counted police among his friends.) The film shows a beaming Liddy giving awe-struck visitors a guided tour of Shenandoah’s (liddys mansion)immense collections. At one stage, he holds up the personal seal of the judge who sentenced Ned Kelly to death.

http://lawisanass-wingate.blogspot.com.au/2010/07/liddy-affair-sa.html

Liddy assembled a top-flight defence crew, with solicitor Eugene McGee instructing Marie Shaw QC (who is now Her Honour Judge Shaw of the District Court). On the other side of the table, the prosecution side, sat Trish Kelly (later a QC and now Supreme Court Justice Patricia Kelly). The horsehair was dusted off before Justice Margaret Nyland in Supreme Court of South Australia, and in April 2001 the trial began.

http://lawisanass-wingate.blogspot.com.au/2010/07/liddy-affair-sa.html

For the victims, it was not enough that Liddy be stripped of his reputation. They wanted revenge. They wanted financial recompense. They re-commenced legal action in the District Court for civil damages. Liddy had the dosh, and they wanted some of it.

So from his cell, Liddy had to fight this civil action. Again he hired Eugene McGee. McGee (now defending a charge of conspiracy for attempting to pervert the course of justice following the Kapunda Road Royal Commission) assigned two eminent barristers to help in the civil case. They were Richard White QC (now a justice of the Supreme Court) and Rauf Soulio (now a judge of the District Court). Solicitor Noelle Hurley and barrister Simon Lane, the former Commissioner for Corporate Affairs, were retained to give advice in the civil case.

http://lawisanass-wingate.blogspot.com.au/2010/07/liddy-affair-sa.html

 

[lincsPJ]

he was a smash-bang lawyer of no big connections or heritage. He was an ex-cop FFS.

none that you know of. rayven is in the ballpark. shad is a smarmy prick with friends in high places.

 

[sherb]

Re: Australian Story - Eugene McGee

but I would hold out.

Australian Story have quite a shameful pattern of advocacy, in issues of the court, where they get thoroughly ACurrentAffair and TODAYTonight equivalent for the ABCcrowd.

demagogy best left for MAtt White and Tracy.

It's called Australian Story for a reason. It presents an issue largely from the point of view of one person. It presents his/her story. In this case it is the victim's widow.

I don't think it pretends or sets out to be completely objective. The basic premise of the show doesn't necessarily allow for that.

 

[Donners]

Re: Australian Story - Eugene McGee

It's called Australian Story for a reason. It presents an issue largely from the point of view of one person. It presents his/her story. In this case it is the victim's widow.

I don't think it pretends or sets out to be completely objective. The basic premise of the show doesn't necessarily allow for that.

Indeed; the problem is that many people do not recognise that and take it as gospel.

 

[blackcat]

Re: Australian Story - Eugene McGee

It's called Australian Story for a reason. It presents an issue largely from the point of view of one person. It presents his/her story. In this case it is the victim's widow.

I don't think it pretends or sets out to be completely objective. The basic premise of the show doesn't necessarily allow for that.

I appreciate that. But it has become an advocacy tool, so if you have the money and smarts, you get a high priced PR and communications firm with deep ties to ABC, to seed your story to the producers of AusStory. So we are gonna have Chris Murphy's face pop up on AusStory in 18 months time, and tell us about the rehabilitation of Matthew Newton. Puhlease.

 

[rayven]

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[blackcat]

Re: Australian Story - Eugene McGee

how is this guy silk?

can they rescind his practicing licence cos of his haircut? I know where Underbelly can find character actors for dodgy criminal rep whigs

 

[blackcat]

Re: Australian Story - Eugene McGee

this is gonna be my knew avatar!

 

[checkraiseulite]

Re: Australian Story - Eugene McGee

I watched the episode of Australian Story tonight and being Victorian and without too much knowledge of the case ended up hating that guy more than Eugene McGee himself.

Thought he came off really badly tonight and honestly do not know how anyone could hire him based on that haircut haha.

 

[Prestigerrycomo]

Re: Australian Story - Eugene McGee

You'd think McGee might have the decency to pay compensation to the family. Or at least a sizable donation to a charity in his name.

 

[TheStinger]

Re: Australian Story - Eugene McGee

You'd think McGee might have the decency to pay compensation to the family. Or at least a sizable donation to a charity in his name.

Well, this guy runs over a guy and kills him, leaves the scene without calling for help, goes home and waits until the alcohol has left his system and also works on a plausible defence for his actions and then hands himself in claiming that it was an accident and he never saw him because it was dark and he got scared.

Somehow I don't think decency is one character trait that he possesses.

 

[Goat 53]

Re: Australian Story - Eugene McGee

You'd think McGee might have the decency to pay compensation to the family. Or at least a sizable donation to a charity in his name.

The family cant even get an apology out of him.

 

[jo172]

Re: Australian Story - Eugene McGee

The family cant even get an apology out of him.

2 nights ago much?

 

[blackcat]

Re: Australian Story - Eugene McGee

2 nights ago much?

but could be PR101, and learnt a thingortwo about crisis management, wait, he learnt perfectly well first time hehehe


but seriously, why watch today tonight, cough, errrr. AusStory.

Australian Story do a great gig in demagogy. Or should that be jig (dance)

 

[Goat 53]

Re: Australian Story - Eugene McGee

2 nights ago much?

I hadn't heard that news. Well bra-freakin-vo *clap... clap.. clap*, what a stand up guy he turned out to be!

Hopefully my sarcasm came across then.

How long has it been? He could've done that years ago. Of Ian Humphrey's at the time primary school aged daughters, one is now a legal adult it's been that long.

McGee's actions don't shock me. I'm never surprised by the actions of dodgy people, what does surprise me is that more people don't even bother with the 'legal' system and take justice into their own hands. But there's the rub though, they wouldn't be decent people if they went down that path and that's why scumbags will continue to get away with what they do forever more.

 

[rayven]

Re: Australian Story - Eugene McGee

2 nights ago much?

Under grievance procedure what channel is left is thier to adress mcgees involvement in this issue?
The premier going the system is about it hey? forgetting how selective hypocritical and anarcist it may be

lets say all has been exhausted, an apology would mean little wouldn't it? it would be in good taste but mean liitle ? correct?