Jan 30, 2023
Tom Penglis
understands firsthand what issues exist in Western
Australia’s criminal justice system. Now the co-founder of the WA
Justice Association, he — together with colleagues like
advocacy director Steven Thiele — is on a mission to
ensure that emerging and existing legal professionals better
appreciate the shortcomings of Australia’s justice system and what
they can do to improve it.
On this episode of The Protégé Podcast, host Jerome Doraisamy
speaks with WA Justice Association co-founder and non-executive
director Tom Penglis and advocacy director Steven Thiele about Mr
Penglis’ experience of incarceration, what he learned from his term
of imprisonment and how it offered him perspective on the criminal
justice system, what WAJA does and why, and how it involves law
students in its important work.
Mr Penglis and Mr Thiele also discuss the flow-on benefits for
emerging lawyers who broaden their understanding of the criminal
justice system, why even senior practitioners need to be
more familiar with such issues, how to triage multiple
urgent advocacy priorities and what WAJA hopes to achieve in years
to come.
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