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Redemption Road
There is no more powerful human narrative than the story of redemption, the assurance that no matter what evil we ...
The Executor And The Prodigal Son
By all accounts the recently deceased was a pretty cranky old dude. Even his life-long best friend, my client, the ...
How Sweet It Is
As a longtime lover of the ‘Sweet Science’, I felt a secret sense of satisfaction in watching the measured way in ...
Swings and Roundabouts
It's funny the way things seem to go on swings and roundabouts. In 1945 the troops returned from World War II ...
The Rule Of Law
In a time of increasingly vigorous criticism of some of our court processes, many were taken aback when Victoria’s ...
Winners And Losers
The thrill of the punt is not for everyone. It can be a tough game. To the victor goes the spoils, but to the rest ...
Reasonable Conduct
The threat last week by One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts to report Fairfax Media journalists to police for ...
Sifting Through The Dross
The Roman Catholic Cardinal George Pell has retained a brilliant USSR-born, Jewish lawyer to defend him. ...
Doli Incapax – Youngest Offender Ever Charged With Murder
In the early hours of the morning following Australia Day last year, 26 year old Patrick Slater was found dead in ...
The Bird Is Coming
I read a news story just the other day about a self-declared “grammar vigilante” who reportedly prowls the streets ...
Feud
Some court cases concern life and liberty, some are about money and manipulation, and others grubby politics and ...
A Foreign Land
The sentencing this week in China of three Australian employees of James Packer’s Crown Resorts brings into sharp ...
On The Edge
I was contemplating suicide this week.
Not personally contemplating the actual deed mind you - in fact, it may be ...
Citizen John and the Genie
There’s a common misconception in some circles that only criminals, miscreants and ne’er-do-wells attract the ...
Parole On Trial
The Prime Minister’s call for an overhaul of state parole laws in the wake of this week's terrorist attack in ...
Fixated Folk
This week I learned something kind of crazy that I never knew before.A gentleman came to my office complaining ...
Nyst Legal Establishes a Brisbane Presence
Nyst Legal is recognised as one of Queensland’s leading criminal and regulatory law firms.Whilst we have been ...
The Better Part Of Us
The 1959 German film Die Bruecke by director Bernhard Wiki is set in the final days of World War 2, as American ...
A Small, Small World
On June 28, 1963, the then-President of the United States of America, the late great John Fitzgerald Kennedy, ...
True Believers – Legalising Medicinal Cannabis In Australia, The Debate Rages On
“Cannabis sativa is the greatest wonder-drug ever known to man.” The grizzled, weather-beaten face of the aging ...
Trial By Internet
How does the criminal justice system cope with the information revolution of the Internet?
In the first week of ...
More Robust Times
For many the recent retrospective by Brisbane’s Courier Mail newspaper, celebrating the 30 year anniversary of the ...
Between Man And Myth
There is so often a deep, unpassable chasm between man and myth.
The late James Rieher Snuka, the professional ...
Welcome To Oceania
We live in an everchanging world.
Early in 2016, it was announced by the British government that a statue of the ...
Fair Go Australia
What goes around always seems to come around again.
In February 1862 a familiar advertisement appeared in the ...
Taking A Backseat
In the old days good girls were told to stay out of the back seat of cars. But perhaps times have changed.
Not so ...
Dog Day Afternoon
Over the break I dropped in for a day of musical mayhem at the annual Falls Music & Arts Festival at Byron ...
Santa Ban
It seems like people can always find something to fight about, even at Christmas time. I guess that's why most ...
The Genteel Silence
The complaint this week from would-be patrons of a popular Adelaide hotel that they were refused entry on racial ...
Selective Amnesia
Remember that awesome pub-crawl you went on in first year uni, the one organised by your student social ...
The Man On The Clapham Omnibus
Lawyers are well acquainted with the Reasonable Man. After all, he’s each and every one of us, although in truth ...
Schoolies, Lockout Laws And Jelly Shots
With Schoolies 2016 and the Christmas silly season soon upon us, licensed premises owners, staff and patrons will ...
The Education Of Amasa
The Bible tells us that the sinner Saul was struck down on the road to Damascus. In a sudden flash of light from ...
Racy Behaviour
This weekend’s Castrol Gold Coast 600 is yet another reminder that some people just seem to be a whole lot happier ...
Send In The Clowns
The circus is in town. A crazy new phenomenon is sweeping across the US, Europe, and now even Australia. It ...
Attack Of The Drones
With the currently almost endemic proliferation in Australian society of audio- and video-recording mobile phones, ...