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In 2009, British American Tobacco sought to manipulate the Australian justice system by trying to have a judge (who made a pre-trial finding of dishonesty by BAT for concealing reasons about destroying documents related to the toxicity of its products) removed from a court case (Laurie v British American Tobacco), and Justice Basten found that BAT tends to lack faith in the proper administration of justice with a real risk that allowing such a result would undoubtedly undermine public confidence in the administration of justice (BAT eventually got the judge in question removed).

I currently have no faith whatsoever in the administraton of justice because of this and other cases where wealthy corporate defendants are winning most of the time - one of the things which can help restore faith in the justice system is the seizure of Chevron's Canadian assets for failure to pay a $12 billion fine (with interest at approximately $300 million per annum) levied by an Ecuadorian court for mass oil pollution through its former Texaco operations.
One final word: privatization of the justice system would carry an extreme danger of corruption and/or improper practices by its owner.

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In 2009, British American Tobacco sought to manipulate the Australian justice system by trying to have a judge (who made a pre-trial finding of dishonesty by BAT for concealing reasons about destroying documents related to the toxicity of its products) removed from a court case (Laurie v British American Tobacco), and Justice Basten found that BAT tends to lack faith in the proper administration of justice with a real risk that allowing such a result would undoubtedly undermine public confidence in the administration of justice (BAT eventually got the judge in question removed).

I currently have no faith whatsoever in the administraton of justice because of this and other cases where wealthy corporate defendants are winning most of the time - one of the things which can help restore faith in the justice system is the seizure of Chevron's Canadian assets for failure to pay a $12 billion fine (with interest at approximately $300 million per annum) levied by an Ecuadorian court for mass oil pollution through its former Texaco operations.
One final word: privatization of the justice system would carry an extreme danger of corruption and/or improper practices by its owner.