Tame Lawyers Help Real Estate Fraudsters
by Tim O’Dwyer M.A., LL.B Queensland Solicitor & Consumer Advocate watchdog@argonautlegal.com.au 
The email came after an article of mine. Before throwing mud at others, suggested the writer, I should clean up my own (legal) profession.
There would always be crooks, I was reminded. New laws, where “some idiot public servant wants to drown everyone in red tape,” would not stop crooks – just make it harder for honest folk to earn a crust, the email continued.
Let me now reveal how the criminal justice laws did in a comparatively rare instance catch, convict, and stop a whole rat-pack of real estate crooks – and their solicitor accomplice.
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