KEY QUOTES AS THE FINAL ROYAL COMMISSION REPORT INTO THE LAWYER X SCANDAL IS RELEASED
ON NICOLA GOBBO'S CONDUCT
* "Ms Gobbo's conduct as a human source for Victoria Police, while practising as a criminal defence lawyer, was extensive and sustained. It was also inexcusable" -Commissioner Margaret McMurdo
* "Her breach of her obligations as a lawyer has undermined the administration of justice, compromised criminal convictions, damaged the standing of Victoria Police and the legal profession, and shaken public trust and confidence in Victoria's criminal justice system" - Commissioner McMurdo
* "What we've seen and learnt throughout this royal commission over the past two years is truly appalling" - Victorian Attorney-General Jill Hennessy
ON FORMER CLIENT CASES
* "The case of Mr Antonios (Tony) Mokbel points to the sheer volume of information Ms Gobbo gave to Victoria Police" - Commissioner McMurdo
* "Mr Karam had grown 'used to her being around and (would) start talking about other things'. She evidently used that closeness to the advantage of police" - Commissioner McMurdo
"Ms Gobbo's submissions suggest an ongoing lack of insight into and remorse for her conduct in blurring her personal and professional relationships" - Commissioner McMurdo
ON LEGAL RECOURSE
"If the DPP determines that it is in the public interest to prosecute, those charged will receive a fair trial according to law, unlike those whose trials were corrupted by their conduct" - Commissioner McMurdo on the Department of Public Prosecutions taking action
ON VICTORIA POLICE
"While the use of Ms Gobbo as a human source was in many ways extraordinary, it was also a systemic failure" - Commissioner McMurdo
"Victoria Police were guilty of reprehensible conduct in knowingly encouraging (Ms Gobbo) to do as she did and were involved in sanctioning atrocious breaches of the sworn duty of every police officer" - 2018 High Court court decision
"Conduct by individual police officers resulted not from any personal intention to act with impropriety on their part, but from what I consider to be behaviour constituting negligence of a high order" - IBAC-commissioned confidential inquiry led by QC Murray Kellam
"The commission does not accept that there was no knowing impropriety on the part of any officer involved in these events. The conduct of some officers fell well short of an acceptable standard" - Commissioner McMurdo
"Much of the conduct demonstrated by individual officers could not have occurred without critical failures of leadership and governance in Victoria Police" - Commissioner McMurdo
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