Sunfish
I’m confident that I have a far better understanding than you of what the Legal Services Directions are and do, and who monitors and enforces compliance with them.
The Judiciary Act 1903 is a law. Section 55ZF of the Judiciary Act 1903 is a law. Legal practitioners representing the Commonwealth and its agencies are obliged to comply with directions made under section 55ZF. Judges and AAT members monitor and enforce compliance with the law – that’s their day job.
Did you not bother to read just the first 2 paragraphs of the AAT decision at the link I provided?
When you suggest that Butson and Quadrio are examples of breaches of the Model Litigant rules, what you are in effect saying is that all the judges and tribunal members involved in those matters are unable to, and do not enforce, the Model Litigant rules. That suggestion is utter bunkum. You just need to read just the first 2 paragraphs of the AAT decision at the link I provided. And please go to the information about the Office of Legal Services Coordination at the link I provided.
Naturally you’ve sent your complaint about CASA’s alleged behaviour in Butson and Quadrio, to the OLSC? What response did you get?
Last edited by Creampuff; 8th August 2012 at 22:17.
Reason: Fix typos