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The Canberra Times
Blake Foden

'Lunatics running asylum': Magistrate goes on 'regrettable' rant in school slap case

Magistrate Roger Clisdell in 2008. Picture Bay Post

The NSW Supreme Court has criticised Queanbeyan's magistrate after he called a seven-year-old boy a "delinquent" during a lengthy rant about the world going "totally insane".

"Gee, I wish I could go back and sue all my teachers from primary school," magistrate Roger Clisdell said while acquitting a woman who "slapped" the child's left shoulder in her class.

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