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legal aid probe

Police must act on Bazley Report corruption claims

Justice Minister Simon Power must waste no time ensuring revelations of legal aid swindling and lawyer corruption are referred to the police for immediate investigation and prosecution of crooked lawyers.

Dame Margaret Bazley’s devastating expose of the $120 million-a-year legal aid scheme, released today, is a condemnation of those greedy and incompetent lawyers who cheat the publicly-funded system.