In the last of the series of recent Migration Act decisions, FTZK v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2014] HCA 26 dated 27 June 2014, the High Court considered the meaning of “serious reasons for considering that [a person] has committed a serious...
In the recent Manus Island case, the High Court came to the view that the designation of Manus Island as a regional processing centre for asylum seekers or “unauthorised maritime arrivals” was constitutionally valid, even if it was contrary to Australia’s...
RoLIA is excited to announce that the Hon Kevin Lindgren AM QC, will be speaking at the University of Sydney Law School as part of the Distinguished Speakers Program. His lecture is open to the public and will address current tensions between governments and the...
The Australian Court System is an adversarial system. A central principle of the rule of law is that all parties involved in legal procedures receive procedural fairness and access to justice. The Federal Attorney General Mark Dreyfus recently stated in a speech to...
The Rule of Law Institute of Australia’s (RoLIA) media release on 22 March 2013 condemned changes to the right to silence in New South Wales that restrict and modify the presumption of innocence and the right to silence in criminal trials. Students studying...
