Bret Walker SC
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There were still very long-running cases.
Some of them involved next-of-kin inquiries.
Who is it who will be entitled?
And you think about the peripatetic nature of the Australian population, you won't be surprised to know that if your grandfather had a brother who migrated to South America, as I remember in one case, there's going to be a lot of work, hard work,
trying to find by dint of cooperation or lack thereof with South American legal regimes, who are the cousins to three generations who might enjoy the proceeds of selling a sheep station west of Dumbo.
So these things still could take a lot of time.
No, we had no scandals of that kind.
not least because we inherited and imitated and adapted the reforms that occurred in England by the end of the 19th century, which have been, in fact, greatly improved since the Second World War.
And nowadays, these things strike...
law students and practitioners as utter terrible scandals, precisely because we are now inculcated with approaches which ought to prevent it.
All of that is just monstrously complacent, totally contrary to what you might expect Dickens invective or satire was intended to produce from any legal professional nowadays to say we don't have those problems.
Of course, we have the problem of cost.
Of course, we have the problems of delay.
No case can be done too quickly, mostly for the people who are interested in them.
And every case is done too expensively.
I don't mean that entirely disrespectfully of clients.
I understand why parties feel the way they do about the cost and delay of the law.
All I can say is, comparatively speaking, it is so much better than it used to be.
Yes, I do.
It is difficult, as you say, not least because he was by no means the first to spot this problem.
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