Victoria Police have spent more than $4m in legal fees trying to protect her identity, saying that her life and that of her family would be at risk if her identity were to be published. In November, the high court ruled that the risk to Gobbo’s life was real but did not outweigh the risk to the integrity of the justice system if her past clients were not informed that their lawyer may have breached legal privilege and worked against them.
法治 (the rule of the law), 要求所有人——不论他是富人,或是被剥夺了公权的人,或是穷人,或是有势力的人,无论是个人,还是政府,无论是警察,还是私人机构——都有权运用同样的法律!
But the rule of the law, said Commissioner Margaret McMurdo, “requires that everyone (the rich, the disempowered, the poor, the mighty, individuals, governments and their agencies, police officers and corporations), everyone is answerable to the same laws”.