To start with they could use their budget more efficiently e.g - lazy incompetent legal support staff whingeing about photocopying and collating evidence -not even correctly filed when sent to barristers- so that barristers have to spend time doing filing etc that should have been done by the "support" Team. I sat in on a few days of the case when ASIC was going after Jodee Rich. I observed the team of ASIC solicitors in attendance-- might just as well have been at home in their trackie dacks for all the notice they took of the proceedings. I observed them actually checking their own personal E mails and surfing the Net -and NO they were'nt looking up past cases for the barristers- Whenever a doc was required none of the solicitors assisting the barristers made any attempt to find it. I saw barristers frantically attending to all the matters that were the job of this team of slovenly dressed solicitors who were on this case. When they were'nt attending to their personal affairs on the net they were strolling out for "breaks"and not even observing the ettiquete of Court. It was disgraceful.We are all paying for these slackos. I had hopes that when the new head was appointed there would be an improvement in the running of ASIC. Just throwing more money at them will not improve their succes in doing their job.
