The President of the Law Council went on:

The person who sits as a Royal Commissioner is entitled to the same respect, inside and outside of the inquiry, as a judge in a court.

In this case, Mr John Dyson Heydon AC QC is a highly regarded former judicial officer. The proper way for dealing with any question of bias, including apprehended bias, is to make an application for the Commissioner to recuse himself …

Why does the QC opposite not know that? Why does the QC opposite not respect that? Frankly, the QC opposite has demeaned himself—

Mr Sukkar interjecting—