Moffit was the son of NSW workers' compensation judge Herbert William Moffitt, and his older sister Gwen was also a practising solicitor.
[1] At the outset of World War II Moffitt joined the AIF as a private in the artillery, reaching the rank of captain.
As a result of these trials, eight Japanese, including Captain Hoshijima Susumi, the Sandakan camp commandant, were hanged, and 55 more were imprisoned.
It also investigated the activities (and alleged Mafia links) of the Bally poker machine company, the major supplier of gaming equipment to licensed clubs.
In his last public address, in 2006, to the professional club, Probus, Moffitt revealed that the late crime boss Lenny McPherson had been a paid informant to his 1973-74 royal commission.