CITATION: David Rofe QC

This Queens Counsel presented to the Carmody Inquiry the 9 volume ‘Rofe QC Audit of the Heiner Affair’ on behalf of his client, Kevin Lindeberg.

Mr Rofe centred his audit on the fundamental rule of law principle, that any document or thing known to be “evidence” in a pending or realistically possible future judicial proceeding may not be destroyed to prevent its use as evidence in such a proceeding.

In settling the audit, he applied the law dispassionately and courageously on the basis that, no matter how high a position of power any person may hold, that person is subject to the law.

He has made the law work towards the ends of justice.

He has better secured public confidence in the principle of government by the rule of law.

The 9 volumes constitute a diary of allegations of systemic failures by most justice watchdog authorities in Queensland.

The Rofe Audit, now a public document, is also a unique historical document, for study and analysis, tending to show how a whole jurisdiction may have come, allegedly, to the surrender of its total obligations towards the public interest, through the protection of the self-interests of a few.