Originally Posted by
Lead Balloon
The contents of Commonwealth Ombudsman’s reports are of no legal consequence.
That may well be so, however, we've had in the public forum this past week, the case of a former High Court judge and the matter of a number of his associates whose complaints regarding their former boss' behaviour towards them was found to be credible subject to the review of an individual independent of the Court, but instigated by the High Court itself.
The former High Court judge's legal counsel effectively made the same point as you have Lead Balloon, but that of itself doesn't mean that the complainants' complaints are not necessarily invalid, just that they have not been tested by the usual processes of evidence and cross-examination and judgement afford by a court of law.