Senate debates

Thursday, 1 December 2016

Questions without Notice

Legal Aid

2:42 pm

Photo of Malcolm RobertsMalcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

Has the Attorney-General and/or his department conducted an actuarial analysis of the resultant additional costs caused by delays at the call-overs due to the extended time required by the judiciary in having to give advice to self-represented parties on such matters as procedure or their failure to comply with prior orders, and the resultant adjournments and further hearings—firstly, costs to litigants who may be legally represented and whose hearing call-overs are consequentially delayed; and, secondly, the additional costs incurred by the court system resulting from these delays? (Time expired)

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