Victoria Legal Aid has cut costs to make the service more effective, but the move has been criticised.
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Victoria Legal Aid has cut costs to make the service more effective, but the move has been criticised.
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Joel Brodsky, center, former attorney for convicted murderer Drew Peterson answers questions as he leaves the Will County Courthouse Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, in Joliet, Ill. after a special hearing involving Peterson's murder trial. A judge recessed Tuesday after the defense sought to bolster arguments Peterson deserved a retrial on charges he murdered his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Peterson's attorneys contend Brodsky his former lead trial attorney, botched his case. Among witnesses they called was Brodsky. Current Peterson attorney Steve Greenberg questioned him. The hearing resumes Wednesday. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Defense Lawyers for Drew Peterson, back left, Steve Greenberg, Joe Lopez, right, and David J. Peilet, front, leave the Will County Courthouse Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, in Joliet, Ill., after a hearing in Drew Peterson's murder trial. The hearing for Peterson ended without a ruling on the former suburban Chicago police officer's request for a new trial. A judge recessed Tuesday after the defense sought to bolster arguments Peterson deserved a retrial on charges he murdered his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Peterson's attorneys contend his former lead trial attorney, Joel Brodsky, botched his case. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Will County State's Attorney James Glasgow leaves the Will County Courthouse Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, in Joliet, Ill., after a hearing in Drew Peterson's murder trial. The hearing for Peterson ended without a ruling on the former suburban Chicago police officer's request for a new trial. A judge recessed Tuesday after the defense sought to bolster arguments Peterson deserved a retrial on charges he murdered his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Peterson's attorneys contend his former lead trial attorney, Joel Brodsky, botched his case. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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FILE - In this May 8, 2009 file photo, former Bolingbrook, Ill., police sergeant Drew Peterson arrives at the Will County Courthouse in Joliet, Ill., for his arraignment on charges of first-degree murder in the 2004 death of his former wife Kathleen Savio, who was found in an empty bathtub at home. Peterson's wisecracking, limelight-hogging, sunglasses-wearing lawyers faced the media horde every day of the former suburban Chicago police officer's 2012 trial — one that ended with a murder conviction and a falling out among the erstwhile colleagues. But the lawyerly war of words in public between lead trial counsel Joel Brodsky and former partner-turned-nemesis Steve Greenberg that began within hours of the trial's end will come to a head Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 at a hearing where the defense will argue Peterson deserves a new trial because Brodsky did a shoddy job. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green, File)
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Joel Brodsky, center, former attorney for convicted murderer Drew Peterson leaves the Will County Courthouse Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, in Joliet, Ill. after a special hearing involving Peterson's murder trial. A judge recessed Tuesday after the defense sought to bolster arguments Peterson deserved a retrial on charges he murdered his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Peterson's attorneys contend Brodsky his former lead trial attorney, botched his case. Among witnesses they called was Brodsky. Current Peterson attorney Steve Greenberg questioned him. The hearing resumes Wednesday. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
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Defense Lawyers for Drew Peterson, foreground from left, Steve Greenberg, Joe Lopez and David J. Peilet, answer questions as they leave the Will County Courthouse Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013, in Joliet, Ill., after a hearing in Drew Peterson's murder trial. The hearing for Peterson ended without a ruling on the former suburban Chicago police officer's request for a new trial. A judge recessed Tuesday after the defense sought to bolster arguments Peterson deserved a retrial on charges he murdered his third wife, Kathleen Savio. Peterson's attorneys contend his former lead trial attorney, Joel Brodsky, botched his case. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)
Court hears appeal against serial rapist's release
A Brisbane court has heard serial sex offender Robert Fardon refuses to undergo a treatment course that would reduce his risk of re-offending.
The Queensland Attorney-General is appealing against a Supreme Court Judge's decision to release Fardon under a supervision order.
The 64-year-old has spent most of his adult life in jail for crimes against women and children.
Walter Sofronoff QC, acting for the Attorney-General, has today told the Court of Appeal that Fardon has a psychopathic personality disorder, refuses to take part in a sexual offender's treatment course, and has an entrenched hostile attitude towards authority.
Fardon's legal team, led by Dan O'Gorman SC, is expected to tell the court that Fardon can abide by a supervision order if he is allowed back into the community.
The hearing continues.
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