Commissioner Sofronoff News Today

"The right thing, the honest thing for the Integrity Commission to do would be to close down this nonsense as lacking any proper basis." HUGH SELBY says there are no reasonable grounds to investigate Walter Sofronoff.

The ACT Integrity Commission is considering investigating corruption allegations regarding the conduct of Walter Sofronoff, the commissioner who led the Board of Inquiry into the fallout from Bruce Lehrmann’s abandoned rape trial.  

"If he is fair dinkum, then Rattenbury will amend his new law to have a single judge decide if there are sufficient grounds to have the territory properly fund those preparing a 'second appeal' for a prisoner," writes HUGH SELBY. 

The ACT Integrity Commission is holding further public examinations this week as it investigates the tender for building works at Campbell Primary School. Here HUGH SELBY looks at what's happening and what limited outcomes there may be.

There are insights and recommendations in the Sofronoff Inquiry report that are gems, writes HUGH SELBY. They have been ignored in the media because they do not sparkle or glitter.

Former barrister and "CityNews" legal columnist HUGH SELBY explains why Andrew Barr's face-saving efforts to spin the Inquiries Act and threaten Commissioner Sofronoff will take him nowhere.

What's in a question? An awful lot when it comes to the Sofronoff Inquiry. Former barrister HUGH SELBY critiques the differing styles and effectiveness of the entertaining silks.

"Sometimes one can look back at a trial and pick the point on which everything turned for a witness and the hearing outcome. It happened on Friday when the rest of us were eating lunch." HUGH SELBY reviews day five of the Sofronoff Inquiry.

After three days, the underlying sentiments and beliefs of the DPP, Shane Drumgold SC, are becoming clearer, writes legal columnist HUGH SELBY

Legal correspondent HUGH SELBY will be commenting on the progress of the highly anticipated Sofronoff Inquiry. Here he reviews the first glimpse of the commission in action as the inquiry opened on Monday, then paused publicly until May 1.