by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Jun 27, 2013 | All Posts
The Rule of Law Institute welcomes the publication of Lexis Nexis Australia’s newsletter Advancing Together: Rule of Law Updates and Perspectives from Australia. This issue features an interview with RoLIA’s Chief Executive Officer, Kate Burns. The...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Jun 27, 2013 | All Posts
In the last of the series of recent Migration Act decisions, FTZK v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2014] HCA 26 dated 27 June 2014, the High Court considered the meaning of “serious reasons for considering that [a person] has committed a serious...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Jun 21, 2013 | All Posts
In the recent Manus Island case, the High Court came to the view that the designation of Manus Island as a regional processing centre for asylum seekers or “unauthorised maritime arrivals” was constitutionally valid, even if it was contrary to Australia’s...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Jun 3, 2013 | All Posts, Education
The 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 Dreyfus recently stated in a speech to...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | May 10, 2013 | All Posts
Link 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 for malicious prosecution if the...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | May 9, 2013 | All Posts
Director 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 of variations in her income which...
