Australia has an excellent
Judicial System,
albeit being a victim of the duplications created by having to
have a separate System for each State and Territory plus a Federal
System, more on that is here;
The
Australian Judicial System. However perhaps a little known
fact is, that a substantial component of the
Legal System
in Australia is made up Officers of the Court who are in fact
lawyers in private practice who have been admitted to also practice
in a particular Court, more on that is here;
Lawyers Duty as an Officer of the Court Unmasked. An inherent
problem arises in this situation because, as an Officer of the
Court a lawyer has a
first duty to the Court and
not the client when in fact the lawyer is not employed by the
Court but is employed and receives remuneration from the Client.
The conflict of interest that arises will be obvious to many,
and especially to those that have been involved in, or read about
litigation in the Legal System in Australia or share the substantial
negative opinion in the community regarding lawyers generally.
This conflict of interest is a fundamental flaw in the System
that encourages corruption of that
first duty to
the Court together with all sorts of dirty tricks. Comment is
invited on this subject.