by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Mar 11, 2014 | All Posts, Education
“Finality is a good thing, but justice is a better” per Lord Atkin in Ras Behari Lal v King-Emperor (1933) Privy Council decision. The High Court in its decision dated 12 February 2014, Smith v the State of Western Australia 2014 HCA3 found that a jury verdict of...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Mar 10, 2014 | All Posts, Education
The Rule of Law Institute of Australia (RoLIA) has produced an education resource for secondary students in Queensland to help them understand the laws passed to deal with organised crime in Queensland. The booklet explains aspects of the following issues: The VLAD...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Mar 7, 2014 | All Posts, Education
In a recent speech at the Great Synagogue in Sydney, Chief Justice James Allsop of the Federal Court spoke candidly about the need to value “civility, reason, fairness and justice. … Civility and manners in social intercourse are not bourgeois affectations; they are...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Mar 6, 2014 | All Posts, Education
The Crimes Amendment (Intoxication) Bill 2014 was introduced this week into the NSW Parliament. It increases the penalty by two years for a number of assault offences if they were committed by an adult who was intoxicated at the time. They also set mandatory minimum...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Mar 3, 2014 | All Posts
In the recent High Court decision Barbaro v The Queen; Zirilli v The Queen [2014] HCA 2 the High Court considered another aspect of the sentencing process: does the prosecution have any role in informing the judge about what sentence should be imposed? A practice has...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Mar 3, 2014 | All Posts, Education
The Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) has released the National Curriculum on Civics and Citizenship that, pending approval from State and Territory education ministers, will be implemented over the next few years in schools throughout...
