sentences:  He became a figure of controversy in 1971 when the Victorian Parliament passed the second "Evidence (Boards and Commissions) Act".This Act amended the "Evidence Act, 1958" to grant retrospective immunity from suit to persons who had been associated with a Royal Commission or a Board of Inquiry, equivalent to the immunity of those associated with an action in the Supreme Court.In his autobiography "Fossil in the Sandstone", Anderson quipped that this legislation was known informally as the 'Anderson Protection Act' because its immediate effect was to protect him and his assisting counsel Gordon Just from writs issued in the Supreme Court on 28 April 1970 that charged them with misfeasance, breach of duty and recklessness during their conduct of the Inquiry into Scientology.