Clancy Dane
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first heard May 2026
last heard 26 May
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it's really important to remember that this is an adversarial system you're up against trained and experienced criminal lawyers who do nothing in their professional lives other than to prosecute criminal cases for most of us facing court with no lawyer and no legal advice in a case that could change the course of your life would be unthinkable
The stakes are incredibly high, particularly with the government pursuing a tough on crime agenda.
It's never been easier to end up in a territory jail.
It's one thing to be tough on crime, but if you're going to be tough, you have to be fair.
So in November of last year, Legal Aid in the Northern Territory announced that, subject to a few exceptions, no legal aid would be available for people who are not in prison.
The core reason for that, according to a letter from the Northern Territory Legal Aid Director, which was leaked to the media, is that $3.3 million was cut from Legal Aid this year, which represents a bit over 20% of their budget.
That comes at a time where the criminal justice system in the Northern Territory is in overdrive because of that same government's tough on crime policies.
So if you are accused of a crime now and you're lucky enough under our new bail laws to keep your liberty...
and you can't afford to pay for a lawyer, there is every chance you will have to represent yourself.
There's a sad irony there that the people who get bail and can stay out of custody tend to be the same people who don't have much, if any, criminal history.
Well, it's an incredible situation and disturbing for me to watch where, as far as I've seen, the Attorney-General has just flat out denied that there have been legal aid cuts.
She talks about an increase to baseline funding for legal aid, but the baseline funding wasn't the whole picture.
So we've got an attorney general who is just denying what is really the liberality of people on the ground, and a letter from the legal aid director that says that they have experienced a funding cut.
The truth is that I don't know, and I don't know if anybody knows how many people are slipping through these cracks in the cistern.
I haven't seen any official figures released.
There are three special lists currently scheduled for June in Alice Springs, Catherine and Darwin, where all of these people are being adjourned into for those regional or urban centres.
But outside of those areas, there's a lot of Northern Territory.
We have dozens and dozens of circuit courts, mostly in remote Aboriginal communities, where there are growing numbers of people who are being expected to represent themselves.
These are largely traditional Aboriginal people who often don't speak English as their first, second or third language.
And that's the other thing about these cuts.
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