Lawyers band together as Tasmania’s court backlog hits ‘crisis point’
Cases are dragging through Tasmanian courts for years as senior lawyers lament the “crisis” engulfing the state’s criminal justice system. In one of the state’s most high-profile recent cases, the man accused of murdering teenager Shyanne-Lee Tatnell is still without a trial date almost three years since he was charged. Thousands of Magistrates Court matters…