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D’OH!!
Is it just me, or are we maybe making things just a little more complicated than they really need to be?
In the ...
Covid Rental Relief
Perhaps not surprisingly, I've been deluged recently with enquiries from small business operators and commercial ...
To D or Not To D
Last week was Privacy Awareness Week, which is a curious irony, given the current dilemma faced by millions of ...
Shortlisted For Criminal Law Gong
Nyst Legal Associate Jonathan Nyst was this week shortlisted as one of 10 finalists in the Criminal Law division ...
Covid Flux
With COVID-19 directives flying thick and fast from both federal and state institutions, many of us may be getting ...
Adapt or Perish
Biologist, historian and futurist H G Wells, author of the sci-fi classic The War of the Worlds - a tale of alien ...
No Ordinary Time
It's sometimes said that one man's loss is another man's profit, and that's evidently true, even in these strange ...
A Mile In Their Shoes
On 20 February 2020, the historical drama, “The Professor and the Madman”, starring Hollywood heavyweights, Sean ...
People Power
For the past couple of months, I have been receiving messages and calls from concerned relatives and friends back ...
A Right To Know
Don’t you sometimes miss the good, old-fashioned Moral High Ground?
As a post-war baby, the world I was born into ...
Malice Aforethought
Last week, a Queensland mother became the first person to be charged under the State’s new, expanded definition of ...
Youthful Exuberance
School’s out! So hold onto your hats, folks, it's on again.
As thousands of school-leavers descend upon Surfers ...
The Means To The End
About ten years before the birth of Christ the great Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso, in his collection of ...
Driver Lock-Out Laws
Over the next 24 months or so, the State government looks set to roll out various amendments to our traffic laws ...
Ten Guilty Witches
In February 1692, in a secluded village in the isolated British American colony of Massachusetts, 9-year-old Betty ...
Behaving Badly O.S.
Last week, Australian man Jock Palfreeman was released from a Bulgarian prison after being incarcerated for 8 ...
The Violence They Suffer
Four men made headlines recently for chasing down a knife-wielding man in a crowded Sydney street and, armed only ...
Taking It To The Streets
We've all heard the news of protesters demonstrating in the streets of Hong Kong, decrying the proposed amendments ...
The Shame Game
China has yet again cemented its reputation as the great 21st-century innovator by coming up with a novel new way ...
Not Much Of A Bargain
Once upon a time, if you did the crime you did the time. If not, you walked. Nowadays, it can be somewhat more ...
Predictive Policing
Robot judges in Estonia? American AI sentencing criminals to prison? Computers predicting crimes before they even ...
Secret X Files
This week Sky News aired the explosive documentary “Lawyer X: The Untold Story”, recounting the sorry tale of the ...
Richard Carter – A True Gentleman
I was very saddened to hear this week of the passing of Rick Carter, the great Australian actor and comedian, with ...
In Defence Of The Defence
This week the Queensland opposition launched a robust attack on a centuries-old criminal law defence.
The 'mistake ...
High Time For Reform?
A common submission by Queensland defence lawyers representing drug-driving offenders goes something like this: ...
Hard Cases
Lawyers have this thing they sometimes like to say. “Hard cases make bad law.” It’s true. About thirty years ago I ...
Justice Denied
Between January 2013 and December 2017, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse ...
Migration Balance
Migration continues to feature as a red hot topic for debate on the Australian political landscape, particularly ...
Mea Culpa
They say confession is good for the soul. That may be so, but sometimes it seems there's a whole lot of things ...
Fool Me Once
There is a Japanese proverb that goes along the lines of “We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well ...
Old School Injustice
A generation ago, corporal punishment at school was commonplace. Canings and strappings that would now turn school ...
Politics, Sex and Religion
It’s often said one should never discuss politics, sex or religion at a dinner party. The latest news out of the ...
Trial By Fyre
A brand new Netflix documentary doing the rounds right now has sparked a maelstrom of controversy around the ...
A Cure For The Common Scold
The wheels of Justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine. One of the biggest movies of 1967 was Franco ...
Pre-Nuptial Bliss
The latest news about Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon and Forbes Rich List’s wealthiest person in the ...
Entertainment -v- Evidence
The concept of an impartial jury is central to the operation of our criminal justice system. For hundreds of years ...