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Queensland DPP 'overworked and underpaid'
May 18th, 2008 at 10:58am
 
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,23711575-2702,00.html?from=public_rss

PROSECUTORS in Queensland are working almost three times as hard as their interstate colleagues on cases, provided with only a third of the funds of the national average.

And the body set up to defend criminals is paid three times as much as the office trying to put them away.

An internal review of Queensland's Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has found it is so under-funded, under-resourced and inexperienced that senior staff fear miscarriages of justice could occur.
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