very unfair to the Victorian legal profession, including the 2,100 practising members of the Victorian Bar, to think that conduct of the kind that has been alleged is anything other than wholly aberrant." During a hearing on an appeal by Tony Mokbel, President of the Victorian Court of Appeal Justice Maxwell called the actions of Gobbo and others involved in her informing "disgraceful" and a "matter of profound importance". In April 2019 Elyse Methven from the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney argued in a peer reviewed article in the Alternative Law Journal that "existing professional rules and common law duties are insufficient to prevent legal advocates from acting as human sources and suggests implications arising from the decision for the application of public interest immunity to human sources". Edward O'Donohue, in his role of Shadow Attorney-General in the Parliament of Victoria, said that the behaviour of Gobbo put the "integrity of the Victorian justice system at stake" and was critical of Victoria Police for both their lack of keeping diaries and their failure to provide documents to the Royal Commission, something which he described as "astounding and unacceptable". Before the report of the Royal Commission was released, Attorney-General of Victoria Jill Hennessy referred the case of Faruk Orman to the Court of Appeal citing "credible evidence that there may have been a miscarriage of justice in Mr Orman's case arising from Nicola Gobbo's conduct and use as a human source by Victoria Police." After the release of the report she said "What we've seen and learnt throughout this royal commission over the past two years is truly appalling" and promised to implement all of the recommendations. Former crown prosecutor in Victoria, Gavin Silbert, said that "It trashes the whole criminal-justice system" and "If people can’t seek legal advice without being turned over, being betrayed by a legal practitioner, it’s the fundamental root of the whole system we operate on." Silbert also said that charging Gobbo would likely require police officers to also be charged and was of the opinion that the leadership of Victoria Police needed to take responsibility for what happened. The Victorian Legal Services Board and Commissioner Fiona McLeay, responded to the final report of the Royal Commission by noting the damage that Gobbo had done to the reputation of the legal profession and justice system and the ethical breaches that she committed whilst