Do Australian courts have a workplace culture problem?
An internal inquiry has found a Federal Circuit Court judge harassed two young women, after one of them made a complaint to the court. The inquiry found that a Parramatta-based judge repeatedly emailed the junior staff member with harassing comments, the behaviour escalated to two instances of unwanted touching. The woman made a complaint to the court in April last year and has been on mental health leave since. Alarmingly, when the woman raised her concerns, she was initially told theres not much you can do about it because hes a judge. The other complainant, a law student, made her complaint in September last year.