Cardross trial judge dies: ‘Great and vital’ advocate and reformer

FORMER Victorian Supreme Court judge Philip Cummins, who presided over the trial of Cardross crash driver Thomas ­Towle, has died. As well as the six-week trial of Towle, Mr Cummins was the presiding judge in the trials of the Silk-Miller police murders, the death of Daniel Valerio and the trial of Robert Farquharson. Mr Cummins […]