Today, the Rule of Law Institute attended a roundtable hosted by the NSW Department of Justice, to discuss the state’s high risk offender post-sentence supervision and detention regime. The roundtable included representatives from Legal Aid NSW, the Aboriginal...
In the fourth post in our series of collaborative posts with New South Wales Young Lawyers’ International Law Committee, Robert Size examines Muhammad Ali’s brush with the rule of law. A key principle of the rule of law is that ‘the law is applied equally...
Today marks the forty-fifth anniversary of Operation Demetrius, where the British Army conducted dawn raids across Northern Ireland, leading to the arrest and imprisonment without trial of 342 suspected members of the Irish Republican Army. Unsurprisingly, the raids...
This article by Robin Speed, President of the Rule of Law Institute of Australia, appeared in The Australian on 05/08/2016. Former NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption commissioner David Ipp, in his response to the review of that agency by its independent...
The recent Four Corners story on youth detention in the Northern Territory has sparked interest in and concern about the issue. This media mash-up will review relevant legislation and media articles about youth detention around Australia. The issue of youth detention...
