Sports lawyer and Deakin University academic Martin Hardie will be one of the keynote speakers at RoLIA’s conference on 15 November at The Mint in Sydney starting at 1 pm. Martin will be discussing how the “just war on doping” justifies the disregard of the rule of...
The Rule of Law Institute of Australia congratulates Her Honour Dr Melissa Perry on being sworn in as a Judge of the Federal Court of Australia Dr Perry has been an active member of RoLIA’s Board of Directors since 2011 and has made valuable contributions to...
Responses by State and Territory parliaments to violent incidents involving criminal organisations has led to the passing of laws which raise rule of law concerns. Diminishing the presumption of innocence through anti-association laws and modifying the right to...
Last week I visited schools in South Eastern Queensland and spoke to students at Springwood State High School, Coomera Anglican College and Sheldon College. My presentations to students focused on a range of topics such as the so called ‘Bikie laws’ in...
Are our courts now becoming debt-collectors of unpaid court fees? Richard Foster, the CEO of the Family Court and Federal Circuit Court has announced that family courts are trying to recover 1.4 million in unpaid fees. In the Rule of Law Institute’s (RoLIA)...
