Page 2693 - Week 09 - Thursday, 25 August 1994
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The Law Society people were not very happy about this being abandoned; but, as somebody said when I made some inquiries about it, they make a lot of money out of this, and lawyers do not like to lose a way of making money. However, if it is unfair to the victim, I think it should be changed. I would like to say also that this was put very clearly to us by VOCAL. I felt that the case they put to us was very good.
I would like to thank Helen, the other member of the committee. I understand that she is not going to be speaking because she has lost her voice. She is going to adjourn the debate. Helen came up with some very good points. I also thank the chairman. We had a few secretaries; but I would like to thank the last one, Russell Keith, who had to put the report together in the end. He had to gather a lot of material together because, as you can see, we had quite a few secretaries along the way. I am not quite sure what happened - whether they did not like the three of us, or whether they just went to greener pastures.
Mr Connolly: Just the chair.
MRS GRASSBY: The Attorney-General tells me, "No, that is not true; it was the chair".
Mr Cornwell: Some of us are nodding.
MRS GRASSBY: I think we all probably have to take the blame, if that is the case. It did take a while for this report to get to the house, but I am very glad that it did come in. As I say, I would like to thank the other members of the committee and our last secretary, Russell Keith, for the hard work he had to do to find everything from the past and to put it together. It has been a long time coming.
Debate (on motion by Ms Szuty) adjourned.
ADMINISTRATION AND PROCEDURES - STANDING COMMITTEE
Report on Members' Staffing - Consultants
MADAM SPEAKER: Members, I present, for your information, a report of the Standing Committee on Administration and Procedures entitled "Members' Staffing - Consultants".
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