Gag Long-winded Lawyers: Dpp

JUDGES should gag lawyers who go on for too long and courts should sit at night to help reduce "extraordinary" legal backlogs, the director of public prosecutions, Jeremy Rapke, QC, said yesterday.

Lawyers Raise Alarm At Surge In Jailed Mentally Ill

INCREASING numbers of mentally ill people are ending up in prison as the state's mental health system buckles under unprecedented demand, lawyers say.