❓ A WA parliamentary question regarding the Attorney General's response to a constituent, Peter Neil, who claims to be a victim of crime. The Attorney General acknowledges receiving numerous communications but disputes Mr. Neil's victim status due to lack of conviction and outlines previous attempts to address his concerns.
AnsweredQoN 6806Legislative Assembly
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In relation to my constituent and victim of crime, Peter Neil, I ask:
(a) has the Attorney General or his office received correspondence or personal representations from Mr Neil; and
(i) if yes, on which dates and occasions;
(b) does the Attorney General accept that Mr Neil is a victim of crime; and
(c) why has the Attorney General failed to answer and address Mr Neil’s concerns and when will the Attorney General fully respond to his issues?
(a) has the Attorney General or his office received correspondence or personal representations from Mr Neil; and
(i) if yes, on which dates and occasions;
(b) does the Attorney General accept that Mr Neil is a victim of crime; and
(c) why has the Attorney General failed to answer and address Mr Neil’s concerns and when will the Attorney General fully respond to his issues?
AnswerView source ↗
Answered
27 February 2012
Response time
97 days
(a) Yes
(a)(i) My office has received more than 200 items of correspondence from Mr Neil and his associate over the past 3 years. This correspondence, which totals more than 3500 pages in length, is of an unsolicited and wide ranging nature and frequently sent to multiple addressees by email or facsimile. It would take a lengthy and time consuming manual search to identify how much of this correspondence has been specifically addressed to my office or myself.
(b) Mr Neil maintains that a specific individual committed offences, and those offences caused him financial loss. Given the lack of a conviction, or at least charges concerning those offences, I do not consider I can appropriately state that Mr Neil is a victim of crime.
(c) In view of the lengthy and continuous nature of Mr Neil's correspondence, my Chief of Staff has met with Mr Neil on multiple occasions to seek to clarify the issues he has raised and determine how, if at all, this office can be of assistance to him. During that process, it has become apparent that many of Mr Neil's concerns are not of a nature that Executive Government can resolve. In this regard, I note that the Supreme Court of Appeal and the State Administrative Tribunal did not take issue with the Legal Profession Complaints Committee's finding that Mr Neil's complaints concerning individual legal practitioners were without foundation and in some instances unreasonable and vexatious, and that the Supreme Court of Appeal stated that Mr Neil "appears to be obsessed" in respect of his original concerns regarding his former business partner.
Nevertheless, I have requested that the Department of the Attorney General undertake a final assessment of the matters Mr Neil has raised to determine whether there is anything further I can appropriately do to assist Mr Neil.
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(a)(i) My office has received more than 200 items of correspondence from Mr Neil and his associate over the past 3 years. This correspondence, which totals more than 3500 pages in length, is of an unsolicited and wide ranging nature and frequently sent to multiple addressees by email or facsimile. It would take a lengthy and time consuming manual search to identify how much of this correspondence has been specifically addressed to my office or myself.
(b) Mr Neil maintains that a specific individual committed offences, and those offences caused him financial loss. Given the lack of a conviction, or at least charges concerning those offences, I do not consider I can appropriately state that Mr Neil is a victim of crime.
(c) In view of the lengthy and continuous nature of Mr Neil's correspondence, my Chief of Staff has met with Mr Neil on multiple occasions to seek to clarify the issues he has raised and determine how, if at all, this office can be of assistance to him. During that process, it has become apparent that many of Mr Neil's concerns are not of a nature that Executive Government can resolve. In this regard, I note that the Supreme Court of Appeal and the State Administrative Tribunal did not take issue with the Legal Profession Complaints Committee's finding that Mr Neil's complaints concerning individual legal practitioners were without foundation and in some instances unreasonable and vexatious, and that the Supreme Court of Appeal stated that Mr Neil "appears to be obsessed" in respect of his original concerns regarding his former business partner.
Nevertheless, I have requested that the Department of the Attorney General undertake a final assessment of the matters Mr Neil has raised to determine whether there is anything further I can appropriately do to assist Mr Neil.
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