Crackdown on naughty lawyers

f off – Legal Profession Act 2006!!!!

That story is simply BS of how the ACT law society are attempting to get credit for doing something – years after sitting on their hands for another payout.. this is a bit late for many who have aleady taken their lives

Others are living from day to day after being exposed to criminal acts by wonders such as LA Legal Aid ACT

Many will never know they were dudded by the ACT Government and places like ACT law society simply because these guys work hand in hand to prevent any court action against them selves while getting paid over $100k to invent a system which does nothing to address the mess and death which resulted in their own fraud (ACT law society does only one thing – look after its self – nothing to do with actual law)

Professionals don’t rat on each other.
It’s the first thing they teach you at uni.
Where would it end, where would it end.

There was an article in the CT yesterday by Tim O’Dwyer ( a lawyer) talking about the prepondernace of lawyers in politics – the largest professional group in Cabinet and in Parliament. He didn’t make mention of the ACT, but it wouldn’t be drawing a long bow to assume the same here.

I suspect that professional clubs (lawyers, doctors, accountants, psychologists etc) all hate the thought of names of offenders being published because of the shame it brings to their professions – references to an unknown and anonymous person isn’t quite the same as a real person with a name and a photo in the paper. Sometimes there is the question of protection for victims, but it’s hard to fathom where this would be relevant except in the case of sexual offences.

Bring back Derryn Hinch!

I read in the CT that Mr Corbell had changed the law relating to the AA Tribunal so that the lawyers cannot be named.

Affirmative Action Man said :

Great work by the ACT Government to change the laws so that the media cannot publish the names of those lawyers involved.

Stanhope & Corbell have an obvious commitment to open Government and public scrutiny. Kim Jong Il would be proud.

So have they actually changed the laws and if so, when?

Judging from this case, djk, mass murder, rape, using weapons of mass destruction and waging genocide would barely make the list.

OzChick said :

^ I’m surprised there isn’t more of them. Half of the the solicitors on that list do property conveyancing. Thanks for that link djk.

I believe there isn’t more of them because a) the list/legislation is fairly new, and b) it has to be a fairly serious issue before they actually name and shame them.

Great work by the ACT Government to change the laws so that the media cannot publish the names of those lawyers involved.

Stanhope & Corbell have an obvious commitment to open Government and public scrutiny. Kim Jong Il would be proud.

“Sadly they can’t yet be named or their offences detailed.”

I’m sure some on the RA will find away to find out and post it here (rightly or wrongly) 😉

I’ve recently had a lot of trouble dealing with my lawyer. I didn’t really know what I could do about the lack of service I was receiving, so I decided to deal with it similarly to how I would if a sales person was behaving the same way – I called the ACT Law Society about my options, and the the law firms Head Office in Melbourne, advising them that I had already called ACTLS.

The next day I received a written letter of apology from the firm and my lawyer, a personal phone call from the Client Liaison Officers in Canberra and Melbourne and another call from my lawyer offering his sincerest apologies.