tallowood wrote on Oct 14
th, 2008 at 6:59pm:
If I understand it right the "separation of powers" occurs on constitutional level and perverting constitution is a treason?
Well, you have it....sort of right.
In Tasmania, they have an Official Secrets Act under which this Commissioner has been charged. I have not read the Act.
But......
In the ordinary course of policing events, information/intelligence will inevitably arrive on the Commissioner's desk.
If these charges are going to stick, it will need to be judiciously determined his obligation was to sit mum on them, and not tell his Minister.
That will be the central issue, but it is clouded a tad because the stuff he allowed his Minister access to involved investigations about political shenanigans concerning the appointment of the State's Solicitor General.
Great grist for the legal and Westminster system Mill.