LEGAL PRACTICE BOARD —
LEGAL SERVICES AND COMPLAINTS COMMITTEE
1237. Hon STEVE MARTIN to the parliamentary secretary
representing the Attorney General:
I refer to the legal services and
complaints committee of the Legal Practice Board of WA.
(1) Can the committee operate
without a community representative?
(2) Do the community representatives
receive an allowance or meeting fee?
(3) Is the Legal Practice Board
responsible for the payment of that allowance or meeting fee?
(4) If no to (3), who is?
There is a question (5) that has
escaped me, parliamentary secretary!
The PRESIDENT: Has the member
finished his question?
Hon STEVE MARTIN: It has
gone.
Hon
MATTHEW SWINBOURN replied:
I thank the member for some notice
of the question. I think he might have realised it sought an opinion! In any
event, the following answer is based on information provided to me by the
Attorney General.
(1)–(5) Meetings
of the legal services and complaints committee require a community
representative, who is entitled to remuneration and allowances. With respect to
the issue of responsibility for payment, the Attorney
General has asked the Department of Justice to look into this issue with the
Legal Practice Board.