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Yesterday, a Dutch arbitral tribunal issued its final award in the long-running legal battle between the Philippines and China over territorial claims in the South China Sea. William Shrubb has a look.

Last week, the Queensland Parliament’s Agriculture and Environment Committee tabled its report into the ‘Vegetation Management (Reinstatement) and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2016’. William Shrubb has a look.

The Institute is proud to announce that it will be partnering with Macquarie University’s PACE program again in 2016.

In our first of a series of collaborative posts with New South Wales Young Lawyers’ International Law Committee, Laura Hugh examines the US military’s controversial attack on an MSF hospital in Afghanistan.

The Institute is co-hosting an event with former South African Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke on Wednesday 15 June 2016 at 6.00pm, on Level 21 of the Law Courts Building at Queens Square, Sydney.

Next month, a deaf woman will argue before the High Court that her exclusion from jury duty was discrimination. Two other deaf people have won international legal battles in the last month, making that same argument. William Shrubb investigates.

The President of the Institute, Robin Speed, has drafted and lodged a submission with the NSW parliamentary committee on the Independent Commission Against Corruption, arguing that a new approach is needed.

The Canadian Supreme Court considered the constitutionality of mandatory sentencing in a recent controversial judgment handed down this month. William Shrubb has a look.