by nyst-admin | 14/03/2018 | Commissions of Inquiry, Criminal Law, Politics
Without doubt, self-preservation is the most powerful and compelling of all human instincts. The will to survive – physically, emotionally, financially – is acute and compelling, inextricably ingrained in our human condition. In his 2007 book Courage: Eight...
by nyst-admin | 18/08/2017 | Commissions of Inquiry, Criminal Law, Litigation, Politics
In a time of increasingly vigorous criticism of some of our court processes, many were taken aback when Victoria’s Supreme Court recently hit back at its detractors, carpeting three politicians, a journalist and a newspaper editor, over public statements criticising...
by nyst-admin | 16/06/2017 | Commissions of Inquiry, Criminal Law, Privacy
There’s a common misconception in some circles that only criminals, miscreants and ne’er-do-wells attract the attention of investigators like Federal and State police, corporate and other regulatory watchdogs, the tax man and the like. Most of us blithely go through...
by nyst-admin | 03/03/2017 | Commissions of Inquiry, Criminal Law, Politics
For many the recent retrospective by Brisbane’s Courier Mail newspaper, celebrating the 30 year anniversary of the game-changing Fitzgerald Commission of Inquiry into Police Corruption in Queensland, will have brought back memories of more robust times. Between 1987...
