MISCONDUCT – LEA ARMSTRONG

Based on the following evidence the author alleges that NCAT President Lea Armstrong is alleged to be corrupt*

Lea Armstrong Page 63 NCAT 2021-2022 Annual Report

The Hon Justice Lea Armstrong BA (Hons) LLB (Hons) LLM
Justice Armstrong was appointed a Judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales and President of the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal on 31 October 2018.
Prior to her judicial appointment, Justice Armstrong served for over three years as NSW’s first female Crown Solicitor, with over 25 years’ experience in government and commercial law.
Prior to being appointed as the NSW Crown Solicitor, Justice Armstrong worked as NSW Treasury’s first General Counsel. Earlier in her career, Justice Armstrong served in a range of senior roles in the Crown Solicitor’s Office, including as General Counsel and as an Assistant Crown Solicitor in commercial law and in administrative law. She also worked in a major Sydney commercial law firm, then Blake Dawson Waldron Solicitors. Prior to her professional life as a solicitor, Her Honour was an Associate to Justice McHugh at the High Court of Australia.
Justice Armstrong holds a Masters of Law from the University of NSW, and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the Australian National University.

Email: justice.armstrong@ncat.nsw.gov.au

ISSUE#1

LEA ARMSTRONG’S ALLEGED COMPLICITY WITH CORRUPT CONDUCT*

Despite repeated complaints (with substantiating evidence) the FORMER NSW CROWN SOLICITOR** NCAT president Lea Armstrong is alleged to have done anything to restraint that alleged CORRUPT CONDUCT being perpetrated against me under the authority of the ALLEGED CORRUPT GSE Act employed Michelle Brazel

It is clear to me that the ALLEGED CORRUPT FORMER NSW CROWN SOLICITOR**LEA ARMSTRONG is complicit with that ALLEGED SYSTEMIC CORRUPT CONDUCT

FORMER NSW CROWN SOLICITOR** Lea Armstrongs alleged NON-FEASANCE / MISFEASANCE / alleged COMPLICITY WITH THE ALLEGED SYSTEMIC CORRUPT CONDUCT  being deliberately & maliciously perpetrated against me undermines the integrity & reputation of the NSW Civil & Adminstrative Tribunal.

However I leave it up to the reader to form their own opinion

 

ISSUE#2

LEA ARMSTRONG’S ALLEGED CORRUPTION*:

• REFUSING TO UPHOLD MANDATORY STATUTORY OBLIGATIONS
• PROVIDING TRIBUNAL MEMBERS ACCEPTED CONDUCT TO ABUSE THEIR AUTHORITY
• BRINGING THE TRIBUNAL INTO DISREPUTE

a. As a result of grave concerns about the conduct of senior member Deborah Dinnen at the May 19,2021 hearing in proceedings 2020/000287835 (refer to : MISCONDUCT-DEBORAH DINNEN) I sought the removal of the alleged corrupt congenital liar Dinnen from these matters.

 

b. On July 1,2021 I received a notice from the registry stating: (copy of notice here)

Senior Member Dinnen has become unavailable. As consideration of this matter has commenced,
but the matter has not been determined, the Tribunal must be reconstituted so that the case can be
decided. The Tribunal, as reconstituted, is to have regard to any evidence, submissions and decisions
in relation to the matter that were given or made before the Tribunal was reconstituted.

The President is obliged to give the parties the opportunity to make submissions about the proposed
replacement before making any such replacement.

The President proposes to replace Senior Member Dinnen with Senior Member Craig Mulvey. If you
would like to make submissions about the proposed replacement, you can make the submissions at
the interlocutory hearing scheduled on Friday 2 July 2021 at 11:30am.

 

c. On July 20,2021 I emailed the NCAT president Lea Armstrong raising several issues: (copy of email here)

1. whether the NCAT president Lea Armstrong had obtained a copy of the hearing recording & transcript and reviewed them.If not why not?
2. The reasons why had Deborah Dinnen become “UNAVAILABLE” for proceedings 2020/000287835 especially since Deborah Dinnen had been assigned new proceedings AFTER the May 19,2021 hearing
3. whether Deborah Dinnen was a “fit & proper person” to be a tribunal member (refer to the NCAT Members Terms and Conditions Handbook)
4. I raised concerns that NCAT president was placing the public at great risk by permitting Deborah Dinnen to preside over NCAT matters as a result of her conduct

 

d. I sent NCAT president Lea Armstrong further emails related to the my July 20,2021 email.

Copies of those emails can be seen here:

• July 21,2021
• July 28,2021
• Aug.8,2021
• Aug.31 2021

These emails satisfy the legislative right provided to a party under the NSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal Act Sect.62 Written reasons where a party can request reasons for a NSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal Act Sect.5 “DECISION”

 

e. On Sept.15,2021 I received a notice from the NCAT registry stating:

(Copy of notice here)

 

f. On Sep.15,2021 I sent the tribunal a formal request for NCAT president Lea Armstrong’s decision under NSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal Act Sect.62 Written reasons

Copy of written reasons request here

 

g. On Oct.12,2021 I received a notice from the NCAT registry stating:

Copy of notice here

 

h. I believe that NCAT president Lea Armstrong has deliberately lied about her STATUTORY OBLIGATION under the NSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal Act Sect.62 Written reasons

– The decision to reconstitute the tribunal clearly falls within the definition of NSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal Act Sect.5 “DECISION”

– The statement that the alleged corrupt congenital liar Deborah Dinnen was “unavailable” was a decision either

• made by NCAT president Lea Armstrong     AND / OR
• accepted by the NCAT president Lea Armstrong (July 1,2021 notice)

Page 9 of the NCAT Members Terms and Conditions Handbook clearly states:

4.1.2 Notification requirements

Members are expected to honour their time commitments to the Tribunal. If circumstances arise which prevent the honouring of a time commitment (e.g. ill health), Members must contact the Division Head  (or, in the case of Appeal Panel work, the President communicated through the President’s Associate) as soon as possible to seek exemption from these commitments for a period of time.

I would strongly argue that NCAT president made many / most / substantially all of those other decisions “deemed” to have been made by her in my CAT Act Sect.62 request.

 

The OBJECT of the NSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal Act Sect.3 Objects of Act requires:

(e) to ensure that the decisions of the Tribunal are timely, fair, consistent and of a high quality, and

(f) to ensure that the Tribunal is accountable and has processes that are open and transparent, and

(g) to promote public confidence in tribunal decision-making in the State and in the conduct of tribunal members.

 

With the issue of the alleged corrupt congenital liar Deborah Dinnen’s conduct a serious issue before the tribunal,the NAT president Lea Armstrong has the PUBLIC INTEREST obligation to be accountable & the tribunal has processes that are open & transparent.

The alleged corrupt NCAT president Lea Armstrong appears to have deliberately failed those statutory obligations.

The alleged corrupt NCAT president Lea Armstrong has set an example to those tribunal members that they are free to abuse their authority and undermine the PUBLIC INTEREST & STATUTORY OBLIGATIONS under the CAT Act

 

* Corruption as defined by ICAC Act Sect.7,8 & 9

NOTE: Lea Armstrong has had ample opportunity to respond to my legitimate & reasonable complaints yet the ABUSE OF AUTHORITY by those ALLEGED CORRUPT GSE Act employed NCAT registry officers continues to compromise my proceedings.

Lea Armstrong is invited to a Right of Reply which we will post for accountability & transparency

**FORMER NSW CROWN SOLICITOR : refer to our SERIOUS CONCERNS page (click here)

* SRNLPA = Self Represented,Non-Legal Professional (time poor,resource poor) Applicants