by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Aug 27, 2013 | All Posts
Are 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 Rule of Law Institute’s (RoLIA)...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Aug 22, 2013 | All Posts
A 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 Court judge in Banerji v Bowles when...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Aug 22, 2013 | All Posts
The 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 fundamental right to remain silent and...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Aug 22, 2013 | All Posts
RoLIA 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 access telecommunications data. RoLIA is...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Aug 5, 2013 | All Posts, Education
NSW 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 relevant cases and media discussed. General...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Jul 22, 2013 | All Posts
The Hon Kevin Lindgren AM QC, former Justice of the Federal Court of Australia, spoke on the 18 July 2013 at the Sydney Law School based on his paper The Rule of Law and Some Current Aspects of the Legal Scene in Australia. The paper is available as a PDF. Some...
