A dark stain on the NSW legal system, controversial and judicially probed Magistrate Pat O'Shane has bailed five months early. She was not due for retirement until June this year..
O'Shane has been the subject of investigations and determinations within her own profession which have, as a matter of necessity, been conducted into her legal competence over a number of years.
In my view, Pat O'Shane represented everything that is sick within the Aboriginal Industry. Here was a woman who played the race card in her determinations. O'Shane also exuded a cop hating persona. In the role of someone who is trusted to remain impartial, listen to the evidence from both sides without favour and adjudicate professionally, this woman was an utter failure. A disgrace.
Good riddance. O'Shane should have been dealt with years ago.
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