Law, not justice:

‘VICTIM of crime advocates have called on the Victorian Government to make child killer Derek Percy pay his own legal fees after a pensioner was ordered to pay them instead.
Victoria’s Supreme Court has ordered that Jean Priest, 72, must pay Percy’s legal bill after she lost the first stage of her fight to force him to give evidence about his suspected part in the killing of her daughter, seven-year-old Linda Stilwell, in 1968.
But Steve Medcraft of People Against Lenient Sentencing says the situation is a disgrace.
“You have got to ask how criminals can use the legal system and the taxpayer pick up the bill, but when a member of the public, a victim of serious crime wants some sort of justice they are subjected to serious costs for asking for it,” Mr Medcraft said.            source