David Leyonhjelm (NSW, Liberal Democratic Party) Share this | Hansard source

Can I ask the Attorney-General: does he think it is relevant to just outcomes in these cases when unexplained wealth issues are brought before a court and necessarily the defendant is subject to representation by legal aid lawyers? Legal aid lawyers, as I pointed out in my speech in the second reading debate, are typically criminal lawyers or family lawyers and would work on $150 an hour, whereas the expertise required in legal representation for these sorts of cases is more complex. Commercial lawyers would be demanding far more than that and would often not accept the legal aid cases in any event. Does that have implications for just outcomes?