1. Early days and an introduction to the verbal -- 2. Politics, police and the start of the joke -- 3. Eighteen murders and more about the verbal -- 4. Jack Herbert's first outing and the Lucas Inquiry -- 5. Wasted efforts -- 6. The Barry Mannix affair -- 7. Director of prosecutions -- 8. Sir Terence Lewis and the Fitzgerald Inquiry -- 9. A Brief returned: the start of the Lewis trial -- 10. SP betting, unlawful gaming and prostitution -- 11. The Evidence of Jim Slade -- 12. A Leisurely debate -- 13. Guilty x fifteen -- 14. Something to do
Summary
For many years Mr Sturgess regularly appeared for the defence in the criminal courts of Queensland. In 1984 he became a Q.C. and the State's first Director of Prosecutions. He illustrates what he found, rightly or wrongly, to be shortcomings in the management of the criminal justice system
