Justice Carmody said he believed those who were resisting change campaigned to force him out.

", not for them, not because of them, but to break the impasse," Justice Carmody said in a statement.

"These recent revelations shine light on serious cultural and structural problems within the judiciary.

"These problems had their origins and were festering long before I was appointed to bring in needed reforms.

"Those resistant to change and modernisation have made it their primary goal to force me out, seemingly at all costs."

However, QUT law professor Mark Lauchs said Chief Justice Carmody's departure could set a dangerous precedent.

"One of the problems is it creates a precedent that the judiciary can, of its own volition, coerce not just the Chief Justice but any judge to resign and that's not very good - that's a bad precedent to set in society," he said.

Professor Lauchs said if the Chief Justice resigned, there was no guarantee any of his demands would be met.

"There's no set of rules in relation to it - the Act doesn't say a judge will resign on the circumstances that they can then use it as leverage to change policy -," he said.

Australian Council of Civil Liberties president Terry O'Gorman said Justice Carmody was making the state look like "Hicksville again".

"The rest of Australia are looking at Queensland and saying 'what on earth is going on?' Are they still in the 1970s and 1980s?" he said.

"To tie his departure to in effect force the Government to introduce a policy change that the Government has said it is not interested in - judges can't do that -

"I have never seen, in 40 years of practising a judge retiring early and saying 'I will retire early only if the government of the day brings in a policy change that I want'."

Dick Smith (not a certified scientist). Businessman, helicopter pilot. Opinion irrelevant.

Aussie wrote on May 28^th, 2015 at 5:25pm:



did he give you a hefty speeding fine I wonder???..

I am sure he didnt let Monis out on BAIL..

or BAYLEY for that matter...

so it must be personal..

An audio recording of Queensland's Chief Justice Tim Carmody reportedly in an has been kept secret by the State Government.

The ABC applied for the smartphone recording and other documents showing the bitter relationship between Queensland's most senior judges through the Right to Information process, but was refused.

The decision-maker said and 

And finally he has.

Link.

He has been sent way down to QCAT......the mickey mouse or kangaroo court where legal representation is not normally allowed.

Bloody idiot should never have put this State through that process.

It'd be like me accepting at my age, selection as wicket-keeper for the upcoming Tests against England.  That's how dumb he was.  Sure, just like me at cricket, he is not without some talent, but he was always way out of depth when he accepted appointment to this State's Top Judicial position....just as I would be, accepting at my age, selection as the Aussie w/k on the current English Tour.  That's probably the best analogy I can come up with.

Just plain dumb......but, let's see attention now centre on the Selectors.......Newmann and the former Boy NonWonder Qld. Attorney General Jarrod bloody Bleijie.