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Australian Leading Judge in plea to President Pervez Musharraf
A LEADING Australian judge
has taken the extraordinary step of writing to Pakistan's military strongman,
President Pervez Musharraf, imploring him to abandon the "savage persecution" of
the country's lawyers.
In a letter to General Musharraf after he imposed emergency rule last week,
Queensland Court of Appeal president, Justice Margaret McMurdo, praised the
courage of Pakistan's judiciary and called for a return to the rule of law. "I
urge you to reconsider your government's recent sinisterly regressive direction
and to immediately restore judicial and legal professional independence and the
rule of law for the Pakistani people," she wrote.
Margaret McMurdo
The Honourable Justice Margaret McMurdo obtained a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Queensland in 1975 and a year later commenced practice as a Barrister. Following her employment as an Assistant Public Defender in 1978, Justice McMurdo began private practice in 1989, and in January of 1991 was appointed to the District Court Bench. Two years later, she accepted a Commission as a Children’s Court Judge, during which she served as a member of the Litigation Reform Commission – Criminal Procedure Division until 1994. In 1998, Justice McMurdo was appointed President of the Court of Appeal.
