Victoria police has admitted an “indefensible interference” in the lawyer-client relationship by using gangland barrister Nicola Gobbo as a police informer. “Over a protracted period there were significant and repeated departures from acceptable conduct in the relationship between Ms Gobbo and Victoria Police,” they said. Tuesday’s dossier includes responses to submissions from Mokbel, Gobbo and former Victoria police chief commissioners Simon Overland and Graham Ashton. Victoria police claimed “this episode has come to light because of Victoria Police, not in spite of it”. In a public statement, police conceded that using Gobbo to inform against clients was “profoundly wrong” and was an “indefensible interference in the lawyer/client relationship”.

Source: The Guardian September 01, 2020 21:33 UTC