It is very depressing reading the social media commentary and realising how ignorant people are about our legal system. That is not helped, of course, by efforts from our media and other professionals to deliberately mislead people, with lawyers complaining about barristers representing accused men, as one glaring example.
It is very depressing reading the social media commentary and realising how ignorant people are about our legal system. That is not helped, of course, by efforts from our media and other professionals to deliberately mislead people, with lawyers complaining about barristers representing accused men, as one glaring example.
The Legal system or should it be the legal "industry" seems to prefer widespread ignorance of it's workings by the general public . It is a protected monopoly making vast profits from the general public and attempts to make it accountable to the people it claims to "serve" are not welcome.
But we need and deserve a better justice system and the more cases like this which shows the system is a dysfunctional mess, the more likely changes will come.
Can we envision a time when the judges and QCs etc. come down from their ivory towers and actually ASK the people how they can provide a better service , or are we more likely to see pigs flying before that happens.
Unfortunantly, the Family Law Industrial Complex and its alied industries are a powerfull lobby group at federal and state levels and a significantion proportion of out politicains are former lawyers and barristers, many of whom exhibit firm allegence with the legal profefession that nurtured their political careers prior to and subsequent to getting elect
That's right, many lawyers/barristers etc. go into politics and hopefully have good intentions and some are probably very good, but the suspicion is always there that they do this to help make new laws and drum up business for their old buddies in the legal profession.
Gough Whitlam was a lawyer and he gave his colleagues a bonanza in the form of the Family Court, what more proof do we need.
We need new laws to control the excesses of the legal industry such as maximum fee regulations and more competition to break the monopoly. This has always been a subject nobody in power would raise, as if politicians were afraid of the legal profession.
If anyone was writing legislation to create a cashcow for a privelleged fraternity, they'd need look no further than the Family Law Industrial Complex. We've had 28 inquiries and no real reform or improvement in outcomes of FL cases :-(, yet the soaring profitability of this sector of Law continues unabated. It will be interesting how the AG, CJ, and woke media will sell the systemic failure of the FC to conclude FC cases within a year of filing, which was the selling point for the merger of the FCoA and the FCC, no doubt it will be blamed on the number of cases where a litigant is self-representing (purportedly 40% litigants now self-rep & even though the FC doesn't disclose gender, we can easily guess)
IMO to be considered a тАЬprofessionalтАЭ one has to exhibit тАЬprofessional integrityтАЭ. Given the many journos who lack any demonstrable тАЬprofessional integrityтАЭ when it comes to deliberately sensationalising and misreporting stories, I would be reluctant to call many journos тАЬprofessionalтАЭ and would extend this reluctance to lawyers and politicians (many of who are /were lawyers)
It is. But as always that is only the loudest not the majority. comments on YT are scathing about her lies and the shocking behaviour - and most blokes I know were pretty sceptical of the whole thing.
It is very depressing reading the social media commentary and realising how ignorant people are about our legal system. That is not helped, of course, by efforts from our media and other professionals to deliberately mislead people, with lawyers complaining about barristers representing accused men, as one glaring example.
The Legal system or should it be the legal "industry" seems to prefer widespread ignorance of it's workings by the general public . It is a protected monopoly making vast profits from the general public and attempts to make it accountable to the people it claims to "serve" are not welcome.
But we need and deserve a better justice system and the more cases like this which shows the system is a dysfunctional mess, the more likely changes will come.
Can we envision a time when the judges and QCs etc. come down from their ivory towers and actually ASK the people how they can provide a better service , or are we more likely to see pigs flying before that happens.
Unfortunantly, the Family Law Industrial Complex and its alied industries are a powerfull lobby group at federal and state levels and a significantion proportion of out politicains are former lawyers and barristers, many of whom exhibit firm allegence with the legal profefession that nurtured their political careers prior to and subsequent to getting elect
That's right, many lawyers/barristers etc. go into politics and hopefully have good intentions and some are probably very good, but the suspicion is always there that they do this to help make new laws and drum up business for their old buddies in the legal profession.
Gough Whitlam was a lawyer and he gave his colleagues a bonanza in the form of the Family Court, what more proof do we need.
We need new laws to control the excesses of the legal industry such as maximum fee regulations and more competition to break the monopoly. This has always been a subject nobody in power would raise, as if politicians were afraid of the legal profession.
If anyone was writing legislation to create a cashcow for a privelleged fraternity, they'd need look no further than the Family Law Industrial Complex. We've had 28 inquiries and no real reform or improvement in outcomes of FL cases :-(, yet the soaring profitability of this sector of Law continues unabated. It will be interesting how the AG, CJ, and woke media will sell the systemic failure of the FC to conclude FC cases within a year of filing, which was the selling point for the merger of the FCoA and the FCC, no doubt it will be blamed on the number of cases where a litigant is self-representing (purportedly 40% litigants now self-rep & even though the FC doesn't disclose gender, we can easily guess)
IMO to be considered a тАЬprofessionalтАЭ one has to exhibit тАЬprofessional integrityтАЭ. Given the many journos who lack any demonstrable тАЬprofessional integrityтАЭ when it comes to deliberately sensationalising and misreporting stories, I would be reluctant to call many journos тАЬprofessionalтАЭ and would extend this reluctance to lawyers and politicians (many of who are /were lawyers)
It is. But as always that is only the loudest not the majority. comments on YT are scathing about her lies and the shocking behaviour - and most blokes I know were pretty sceptical of the whole thing.