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There's a move to raise the bar on complaint assessment.

There's a move to raise the bar on complaint assessment.

Friday, March 5, 2021 Mr Page was a magistrate of strong Christian conviction.  After many years’ blameless services in that role he began to hear family cases and in 2014 he presided over an adoption application by a same-sex couple.  All the other factors pointed in favour, but Page refused to sign off on it on the grounds of his religious beliefs.  He was sworn to act in the best interests of the child, he said, and in his view that was to provide it with a mother and a father because that was “natural”.  It was not that he was flatly against same-sex adoptions 

“[T]he reality is that at, our current pace of work, we would need five or ten years just to go through all the accusations and possible cases brought up this summer,” project manager Josh Kassel writes in the panel’s official statement. “Thousands of hours would be spent listening to testimonies or getting details of the darkest parts of our community, and that is when you consider only the people from this summer. Any questionable behaviour in the meantime would get added to a waiting list that could be a decade long.” Previously known as the Harassment Taskforce, the Code of Cond...