On 29 October 2013 the Rule of Law Institute made a submission to the Senate Inquiry into the Performance of the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC). Our full submission is now available and can also be found...
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The Inquiry into the performance of the Australian Investments and Securities Commission (ASIC) by...
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...
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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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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...
Read MoreIn April 2013 Treasury released a discussion paper entitled Improving the Transparency of Australia’s Business Tax System. RoLIA’s submission focused on one of the proposals contained in the paper relating to...
Read MoreThe Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee called for sumbissions on the Public Interest Disclosure Bill 2013. RoLIA’s submission made the following recommendations on the bill: RoLIA welcomes the...
Read MoreSubmissions to Senate Committee Inquiry into the Impact of Federal Court fee increases since 2010 on access to justice have pointed out the problems with the high cost of court fees. The Committee is due to report back in early...
Read MoreThe Queensland Rule of Law Essay Prize for secondary students is now open for submissions. Check the submission guidelines for further details. RoLIA’s research guide may provide some interesting case studies for you to kick...
Read MoreRule of law issues have featured significantly in a number of High Court judgments over the past weeks. In Monis v The Queen [2013] HCA 4, handed down on 27 February 2013, a range of views were expressed by members of the High...
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