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...
Read MoreLast 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...
Read MoreAre 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...
Read MoreA Paper for the Economics and Business Educators’ Legal Studies Conference in 2013 on High Court Cases and the state of the freedom of political communication. Freedom took a further hit with the decision of a Federal Circuit...
Read MoreThe High Court has ruled that the Australian Crime Commission cannot require someone charged with an offence to answer questions before his or her trial on the subject matter of the charges, because that would interfere with the...
Read MoreRoLIA has made a submission to the Senate Inquiry into the Telecommunications Amendment (Get a Warrant) Bill 2013. The Bill is a private senator’s bill which is intended to require investigative agencies to obtain a warrant to...
Read MoreThe NSW government intends to completely overhaul the current planning laws. Although the rationale for the overhaul is to give the community a greater say at the strategic planning stage rather than the opportunity to object to...
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Last week I visited schools in Rockhampton in Central Queensland and spoke to students at The...
Read MoreNSW Economics and Business Educators Legal Update Conference on 2 August 2013 on freedom of speech, the rule of law and political debate in Australia. The paper is available and the links below provide a guide to some of the...
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First Prize: Brydie Parle The Cathedral College Rockhampton Teacher: Mrs Karen Lester...
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This weekend RoLIA is at the Business Educators’ Association of Queensland state conference...
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The Hon Kevin Lindgren AM QC, former Justice of the Federal Court of Australia, spoke on the 18...
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The Rule of Law Institute welcomes the publication of Lexis Nexis Australia’s newsletter...
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In the last of the series of recent Migration Act decisions, FTZK v Minister for Immigration and...
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In the recent Manus Island case, the High Court came to the view that the designation of Manus...
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RoLIA is excited to announce that the Hon Kevin Lindgren AM QC, will be speaking at the University...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreLink to decision In Roseanne Beckett v State of New South Wales, decided on 8 May 2013, the High Court has taken the unusual step of overruling previous decisions that limited the right of an accused person to recover damages...
Read MoreDirector of Public Prosecutions (Cth) v Keating ([2013] HCA 20) Case Summary [2013] HCASum 19 (8 May 2013) Link to Decision Kelli Keating was charged with a number of offences relating to her alleged failure to inform Centrelink...
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