Above the law
Yet it seems the current minister has trouble getting along with his brother lawyers.
Instead of the usual merriment we have come to expect at year's end, Mr Young and the Law Association clashed on Monday over remarks he made on Christmas Day at a police awards ceremony.
Through a combination of innuendo and slick but transparent rhetoric, the minister attacked lawyers who represent people who are purportedly in the country illegally. He feigned concern about the aiding and abetting of criminal activities.
In reply, the association said lawyers work in the public interest and the Cabinet was putting the profession in harm’s way.