by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Oct 24, 2022 | Case Notes, Crime
Chris Dawson Case Note How effective is the media as a non-legal measure in achieving justice? Conversely, what are the risks and challenges that the media may pose to existing legal measures used by police and courts? How does the legal system ensure that the rights...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Sep 12, 2022 | Case Notes, Crime
Baden Clay Case Note Chris Dawson wasn’t the only husband whose murder case was based on circumstantial evidence. 10 years ago, another woman vanished from a troubled marriage, Allison Baden-Clay. Access our updated resource here: Content Warning The following case...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Dec 13, 2021 | Case Notes, Crime
Claremont Serial Killings Casenote Case Citation THE STATE OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA v EDWARDS [No 7] [2020] WASC 339 Watch the judgement of Bradley Robert Edwards below – ABC News Click Here to watch the judgement on Youtube Facts of the case Between 1996 and 1997,...
by Sally Layson | Dec 13, 2021 | Case Notes, Crime
Skaf Case Note For crimes that society considers as the worst of crimes, should the accused be expected to serve a life imprisonment? Should the criminal process be applied differently to the perpetrators of crime that society considers the most heinous of human...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Jan 28, 2019 | Case Notes, Crime
Changes to the right to silence and pre-trial disclosure Access to Justice, Legal Aid and Self-Represented Litigants High Court finds against wide questioning powers given to Australian Crime Commission Legal Responses to Criminal Organisations 2013 NSW Crime...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Sep 12, 2016 | All Posts, Case Notes, Constitution, Education
The High Court’s judgment in the landmark case of Kable v Director of Public Prosecutions (NSW) [1996] HCA 24 marked an important extension of a particularly Australian concept of the independence of the judiciary from the federal level to the state level. The...
