Should Victoria’s DPP have laid charges over Lawyer X scandal?

‘The public would be entitled to think that after four years and $125m poured into investigating and correcting this perversion of the course of justice … there would be a few heads on poles.’ Photograph: SUPPLIED/PR IMAGE

The fallout from the Lawyer X case in Victoria shows little sign of abating as news hounds gleefully report a deadlock between Victoria’s top prosecutor and a retired high court judge.

At stake is whether charges should be brought against multiple suspected Victorian police officers for perjury and attempting to pervert the course of justice – arising from the recruitment, management and use of Melbourne lawyer Nicola Gobbo to inform on her criminal clients.