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Diagnosing corruption within judicial systems

Diagnosing corruption within judicial systems

In the sixth post in our series of collaborative posts with New South Wales Young Lawyers’ International Law Committee, Marina Kofman looks at the IBA’s latest program on judicial corruption.   The judiciary plays a fundamental role in safeguarding the rule...
Sentencing at the ICC

Sentencing at the ICC

In the fifth post in our series of collaborative posts with New South Wales Young Lawyers’ International Law Committee, Louisa Spiteri examines the ICC’s sentencing of a Congolese warlord.   A crucial element of fairness in the criminal justice system is...
Roundtable on high risk offenders

Roundtable on high risk offenders

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...
Muhammad Ali and equality before the law

Muhammad Ali and equality before the law

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...
Sentencing at the ICC

Operation Demetrius

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...

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