The S-Files. Simon Power, Minister of Injustice

It's More Rotten Than We Thought

The Contra Celsum S-Award committee met yesterday and voted unanimously to bestow and S-Award upon Simon Power, Minister of Justice.

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Yesterday we posted on the craven and cowardly decision by the Minister of Justice, Simon Power refusing to set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Peter Ellis travesty of justice.


Power attempted to justify his denial of a petition which had called for just such an inquiry--a petition which had been signed by three former prime ministers, half a dozen law professors, and several judges, as well as members of the current Cabinet--by hiding behind legal forms. Ellis still had the right of appeal to the Privy Council; it would be inappropriate to have a Commission of Inquiry while some legal avenues for redress were still open to him blah, blah, blah.

It took all of a couple of minutes yesterday for Ellis to confirm that an appeal to the Privy Council was impossible because he has no money to fund such a petition to the Council. So the hollow sham of Power's decision has been exposed for what it is--the crafty manoeuvring of a shyster. While claiming to respect justice and its processes, he knows full well that justice is now never going to be served. It is the cynical ploy of a man who has become a living parody of his office.

For the rest of his term, Simon Power should be given the sobriquet of Minister of Injustice; history should record his shameful derogation of office.

Simon Power, Minister of Justice: S-Award Class II for official actions which are Shameful, Short-sighted, Stupefied, and Scandalous.