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"Who is James Johnson ???"

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Created: Thursday, 10 May 2012 18:31

Written by Alecomm2

James is a prominent Australian constitutional lawyer, human rights campaigner, innnovative thinker and whistleblower, noted for powerful oratory and written skills, which he puts to good use in the law courts, as a media commentator and as a playwrite and author. 

James graduated from Monash University in 1986 with a Bachelor of Economics (Class IIA Honours) and again in 1989 with a Bachelor of Laws.   James was a full time member of the Monash University Faculty of Economics and Politics during the 1987 and 1988 academic years, teaching and relief-lecturing in mainstream undergraduate microeconomics and macroeconomics subjects.

James is the author of more than a hundred published works on topics as diverse as economics, politics, Australian and world history, law, civil liberties and human rights.  From late 1998 until mid 2003 James was a monthly columnist for the Victorian Law Institute Journal.

Between 1990 and 2001 James enjoyed a succesful commercial law career with not one but two of Australia's most prominent international law firms (both firms consistently ranked in the top 30 law firms in the world).

In 2001 James turned his back on private legal practice to take up General Counsel roles in the government and private sectors, before returning to private practice in 2007.   In 2007 James' attention turned to the paradox of Australia's precarious constitutional human rights predicament.  This was when he first became aware of the widespread human rights violations being committed against thousands of ordinary Australians and their families every day, by the Australian Government and a large section the Australian legal profession, under guise of the contemporary degeneration of the Whitlam era's original simple, "no fault" divorce laws, the Family Law Act 1975. 

James was apalled by the systemic violations of the human rights and dignities of ordinary Australians who had never before been in trouble with the lawyers.  James remains apalled by the evil torment and abuse inflicted on ordinary Australians in these countless secret, closed hearings that resemble Salem witchcraft sessions, a blood sport for "family" lawyers, where all modern concepts of human rights, due process, rule of law and natural justice seem to have been totally suspended by the Australian government.  The lives of ordinary Australians are thrown to the merciless whims of all-powerful, un-balanced and un-checked judicial officials, chosen by so-called "family" lawyers from within their own ranks and reflecting their own lawyer class wants and interests rather than the interests, wants, rights and entitlements of ordinary Australians.  (Click here to view the latest news on the Vilification of James Johnson by the Victorian Government).

Being a man of “the humblest of beginnings”, unlike too many other lawyers James cannot not close his eyes to these outrages.  This has earned him the wrath of many powerful figures in the legal and government establishment who have since sought ways to silence him.

Since 2007 James has acquired a portfolio of involvement in important human rights cases in Australia defending ordinary Australians from Government abuse in areas such as family rights, child rights, marriage rights, elder rights, Goverment recognition of same sex relationships and defending other civil and political rights of ordinary Australians.

James has also become an outspoken advocate for independent (ie non-lawyer controlled) investigations of sections of the Australian legal profession, the judiciary and legal regulators, ombudsmen, police and other Government legal institutions that seem to have become infected with the lawyers culture of "holier than thou" syndrome that has sheltered and even judicially and politically sanctified crime and corruption, legal nonsense and political and economic ineptitude including the wholesale abandonment of any serious pretence of human rights or rule of law for Australians. 

James has also become an active campaigner for constitutional, political and justice reforms, recognising that widespread corruption and human rights abuse are just symptoms of bigger problems that occur whenever  government grows so invasive of every detail of ordiinary daily affairs that government leaves no room for the roles individual, family, community and church responsibilities once played in regulating ordinary daily life.     

Recognising the formidable barriers to justice that exist in a legal system that has been fully-designed, built, owned and operated by and for the ruling Australian political lawyer elite for generations, and seeking to warn and to inform wider audiences, James has turned the stories and transcripts from several imporant human rights cases into screen plays for theatre and cinema projects. These include “The Crucible”, “Soylent Green and Gold” and “Seven Little Australians.”