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Australian Judge David Yeldham
Broadcast:
17/02/97
Courting Disaster
The suicide of Justice David Yeldham after his secret life had been revealed scandalized the judiciary. There is evidence that the highest judicial officers in the state were made aware of his behavior in the late 1980s but failed to take effective action. His practices, in the eyes of Sir Laurence Street, the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, made him unfit to hold his office. Original Story.
Reporter: David Hardaker
Producer: Ian Altschwager
Research: Jacquelyn Hole