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Martin Hinton KC is vowing to stay on as the state’s Director of Public Prosecutions to fix a range of workplace issues identified within his agency as he considers pushing the Malinauskas Government for more funding.
A State Government-commissioned report into the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has found that the workplace experience for most staff is "untenable" with lawyers working under unacceptable levels of pressure.
The state's Attorney-General will not publicly release a survey of staff in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, saying employees should be able to speak confidentially about the key legal agency accused of having a “toxic, chaotic and shambolic” workplace culture.
SA-Best has called for an urgent parliamentary enquiry into the Director of Public Prosecutions' office, citing an "extremely troubling" email from DPP Martin Hinton to staff and workplace surveys as evidence of a "toxic, chaotic and shambolic" culture in the key legal agency.