Why are CASA so a-feared of prosecuting? Is it that the presenting of facts and circumstances, to a court of law and having to prove a case is just too hard? Or is just the potential humiliation of having your collective arses trounced on a trumped up brief too scary for the amassed ego's. Perjury and accountability do not make for easy minds, one element has to go.
Folks,
Actually, there is a reasonably simple answer, provided by a former Director of Aviation Safety/CEO of CASA direct to his then Minister, who asked a question, substantially similar (in meaning, if not wording) to the above.
The occasion was a meeting in the Minister's office, subsequent to said DAS/CEO making a rather controversial appearance at the National Press Club, where, amongst other interesting statements, the said Director "complained" that "Courts got it wrong". We can't have the guilty bastards found innocent, can we.
Anyway, back to the Minister's office, and the answer to the Minister's question about the need for facts: "But, Minister, if we had to have facts, I would need another 100 investigators".
Administrative actions, and a naive/ compliant AAT are so much neater and tidier that courts, rules of evidence and other inconvenient restrictions on CASA.
Tootle pip!!
PS: Before any of you claim this is a second hand account, and not accurate, not so!