The Magna Carta Exhibition at the High Court of Australia – ‘Magna Carta: To None Will We Deny Justice’ was recently launched. The exhibition had already been visited by around 2000 students from a number of different schools! The exhibition will be...
In the course of our research at the Institute we frequently come across interesting sources of information about legal issues that are helpful for teachers and students studying Legal Studies in Year 11 and 12, or other subjects about Government: Courts We’ve...
This year Australian Legal Philosophy Students Association (ALPSA) will be running an essay competition for all Australian University students – undergraduate and postgraduate! Write on any jurisprudence topic you like – from the rule of law in Australia today (see...
Nicholas Cowdery AM QC’s paper: ‘Mandatory Sentencing: Getting Justice Wrong’. See the live tweet and excerpts from the paper below. Podcast coming soon! Want to know more? The Sydney Morning Herald has highlighted Mr Cowdery’s point...
Kable’s Case and the Rule of Law The case of Kable raised constitutional questions in which the High Court had to consider whether the Community Protection Act 1994 (NSW) required a court to exercise non-judicial power in breach of the doctrine of separation of...
