The Select Committee on the establishment of a National Integrity Commission has released its interim report, just days after conducting public hearings in Sydney and Canberra. The Institute made a written submission to the Committee, recommending against establishing...
The High Court has decided to retain the so-called “advocates’ immunity” – the immunity enjoyed by lawyers for negligent actions or omissions done in the conduct of a case in court, or done out of court, but which are intimately connected with...
The Canadian Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of mandatory sentencing in a recent controversial judgment handed down this month: R v Lloyd 2016 SCC 13. The case concerned a mandatory sentencing regime introduced by the previous Conservative government,...
The Institute gave evidence yesterday before a public hearing of the Select Committee on the establishment of a National Integrity Commission, arguing that any such Commission must take into account concerns about the NSW ICAC model. Vice President Malcolm Stewart...
Sir Owen Dixon, the sixth Chief Justice of the High Court, was born 130 years today — on 28 April 1886 — in Hawthorn, Melbourne. He was widely lauded, both during his judicial career and afterwards, as Australia’s greatest judge, and indeed one of...
