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...
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...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Mar 27, 2013 | All Posts
Rule 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 Court about the ambit of freedom of...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Mar 27, 2013 | All Posts
The volume and complexity of law is of great concern in maintaining the rule of law. If the law is so complex and vast that it cannot be known fairness and certainty in the legal system suffers. Scrutiny of bills is important in upholding the rule of law, but also in...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Mar 22, 2013 | All Posts
The right to remain silent when being investigated is a fundamental principle of our system of justice, alongside the presumption of innocence until proven guilty. It is the “golden thread” that runs through our common law system of criminal justice, as...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | May 7, 2012 | All Posts
In 2012 RoLIA sponsored Hon. Kevin Lindgren AM QC to be the first adjunct professor of the rule law at the University of Sydney. This position gives his honour the opportunity to provide law students at different levels in their studies a better understanding of the...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Apr 12, 2012 | All Posts
RoLIA and the Centre for Public, International and Comparative Law at The University of Queensland’s TC Beirne School of Law were proud to present the Conference on Rule of Law: Contemporary Issues with the support of the Queensland Bar Association. The conference,...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Nov 6, 2010 | All Posts
Our second conference, held in conjunction with the NSW Bar Association, was held on Saturday 6 November 2010. The chair of the conference was the Hon J J Spigelman AC, Chief Justice of the NSW Supreme Court Speakers were: The Hon Justice J D Heydon AC, Justice of the...
by RuleofLawInstitutePerson | Nov 12, 2009 | All Posts
12 November The 2009 joint conference of the Rule of Law Institute of Australia and the New South Wales Bar Association On Friday 12 November 2009 the NSW Bar Association in conjunction with the Rule of Law Association of Australia (as it was known then) held a...
