except for the doings of the hawks the hawks are not a specialised anticorruption unit the unit also deals with the prevention investigation and combating of national priority offences in particular serious organised and transnational crime and serious commercial crime the efforts to make it seem independent of political interference have been legion but one of the most important calls of the judgment was simply pushed aside from paragraph two hundred and seven of the judgment regarding public perception the appearance or perception of independence plays an important role in evaluating whether independence in fact exists will the public have confidence in a unit where the head is merely appointed by the minister with no involvement of parliament and where his or her rank is subordinate to that of the national commissioner as the ruling says if parliament fails to create an institution that appears from the reasonable standpoint of the public to be independent it has failed to meet one of the objective benchmarks for independence it is hard to imagine that the bill before us today for its second reading