Credentials
Victor James Zammit, B.A.(Psych), Grad. Dip. Ed., M.A.(Legal Hist.), LL.B, Ph.D, lawyer, Euro-Australian, is an attorney-at-law, Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the New South Wales and the High Court of Australia (ret.). Victor was raised and educated in Sydney, Australia. (Victor worked p/t for a law enforcement agency).
He is a specialist in Corporations Law and a consultant and lecturer. Before that he worked in the Local Courts, District Courts and Supreme Courts in Sydney.
He successfully defended a client (now believed to be deceased) who was reputed to have been an arms dealer and who is on record (Judge Palermo, Italy) for trying to sell three atomic bombs to Saudi Arabia, 82 Exocet missiles to Argentina in the mid 80's - matter published in the Sydney mainstream newspaper The Sunday Telegraph 10th April 1988. Information from this client led to the removal of a Minister for Defence in the Fraser Government.
Victor is on record for being one of the early lawyers to introduce the defence of 'Dissociative Reaction' to murder associated with Provocation in the matter of The Crown v J Borg heard by Mr Justice Yeldham at Parramatta District Court. In 1979 Victor was also appointed by the Premier of New South Wales Mr Neville Wran SC as an independent investigator for the investigation of the shooting of a hostage by the police.
Victor pursued extensive extra-curricular activities in civil liberties and human rights, participating in memorable public debates. On three occasions he debated with the former Leader of the Conservative Party and Shadow Attorney General of the State of New South Wales, now the Hon. Mr Justice Dowd of the Supreme Court on the topic ’That Australia should have a Bill of Rights’. In 1974 he debated the then National Secretary of the Australian Communist Party, Laurie Aarons, on ’Violations of Human Rights in Russia’. He also particpated in a debate against the present Australian Prime Minister, Hon. John Howard, at Mosman in 1971 on ‘Australia’s Foreign Policy’.
In 1979/80 Victor was a member of the United Nations Association Human Rights Committee (NSW Branch).
Victor organised and chaired other highly successful public meetings at the internationally famous Wayside Chapel and the University of New South Wales for Australia’s charismatic leaders, including five former Prime Ministers and other Western and Eastern leaders in religion, politics and administration. During the late sixties and seventies - the Vietnam War years - Victor organised extensive pro human rights and anti-USSR communist meetings. He organised the only pro-American demonstrations in Australia regarding the American hostages taken by Iran during 1979-1980.
For over a decade on Sundays Victor volunteered his professional services as meetings co-ordinator, orator and chairperson at the Wayside Chapel. He worked closely with the legendary spiritually radical, charismatic leader, the Rev. Ted Noffs and was influenced by his teaching of universal consciousness and tolerance of all religions and non religionists. He was attracted by the philosophy of the Wayside Chapel - “I am a Catholic, a Protestant, a Jew, a Muslim, a Sikh, a Buddhist, a Hindu ... I am part of all religions past, present and future, because I am a human being and nothing is alien to me ...” Further, the emphasis at the Wayside was on social justice, in doing for the good of humanity and not in any religious beliefs.
Victor was initially suspicious of the New Age Movement for its blatant commercial exploitation of people’s basic instinctual tendency for spiritual development. However he did have a number of psychic/spiritual experiences which set him questioning, reading and researching. Adopting a scientific criterion, Victor was able to select that information which could withstand and pass the many rigid tests of objectivity.
The book, A Lawyer Presents the Case for the Afterlife, has been accessed by more than two and a half million people from sixty five countries over the last seven years.