The WA Director of Public Prosecutions has given her bleakest outlook yet, explaining the challenges facing her office as the legal system bursts at the seams.
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Two Perth cafe owners, labelled weak by WA Judge, were each sentenced to over seven years in jail for the 2018 rape of a customer who was so intoxicated she could not stand.
Carmel Barbagallo SC appointed a judge of the District Court
Deputy Director of DPP to be part of the judiciary
Appointment fills vacancy left by the retirement of Her Hon Gillian Braddock SC
Attorney General John Quigley has announced the appointment of high profile Senior Counsel, Carmel Barbagallo, as a judge of the District Court.
Ms Barbagallo has 25 years’ legal experience commencing in general practice in regional Queensland before taking on a variety of roles in the ACT, Victoria and Western Australia.
Highly regarded in legal circles, she has spent many years managing and conducting the most demanding, complex and important criminal prosecutions in the State.