It’s very disturbing. Apparently a small number of men have made allegations that someone who is possibly a serving South Australian politician is a paedophile to the Speaker of the South Australian Parliament, and now three of them have been murdered. The Speaker, Peter Lewis, was gathering evidence on the systematic abuse of wards of the state when he came across this information.

Read this ABC news story and then this story and then browse Google News’s related links.

Here’s a refreshing story, courtesy of Groklaw, a US Federal judge in California has ordered an 80 strong firm of lawyers to take 6 hours of ethics training for "repeated misstatements of the record, frivolous objections to plaintiff’s statement of facts, and repeated mischaracterizations of the law.". It would appear that Elaine M. Yama, the lead on the case (whom the judge singled out for 20 hours of training) is no longer with the firm, see the Google Cache for the old page about her.

The full court judgement is available here as PDF.

I wonder if we could get the same for politicians too ?