by Julie McCoy | 08/11/2019 | Criminal Law, Opinion
About ten years before the birth of Christ the great Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso, in his collection of epistolary poems known as The Heroides, coined the Latin phrase Exitus acta probat, which translates roughly to the often-quoted mantra ‘The end justifies the... 
by Julie McCoy | 04/10/2019 | Criminal Law, International, Opinion, Politics
In February 1692, in a secluded village in the isolated British American colony of Massachusetts, 9-year-old Betty Parris and her 11-year-old cousin Abigail Williams, began to behave very strangely indeed. It seems they had recently taken to screaming, ranting and... 
by Julie McCoy | 27/09/2019 | Criminal Law, International
Last week, Australian man Jock Palfreeman was released from a Bulgarian prison after being incarcerated for 8 years and 11 months for the murder of a local law student in 2007. Palfreeman has consistently protested his innocence, his legal team unsuccessfully arguing... 
by nyst-admin | 29/08/2019 | Criminal Law, Domestic Violence
Four men made headlines recently for chasing down a knife-wielding man in a crowded Sydney street and, armed only with milk crates and chairs, tackling him to the ground, disarming him and detaining him until police arrived. The male firefighters who leapt out of... 
by nyst-admin | 22/08/2019 | Criminal Law, Human Rights, International
We’ve all heard the news of protesters demonstrating in the streets of Hong Kong, decrying the proposed amendments to that city’s extradition laws with China. We’ve seen the television news footage of university students, right here in Australia,... 
by nyst-admin | 09/08/2019 | Criminal Law
Once upon a time, if you did the crime you did the time. If not, you walked. Nowadays, it can be somewhat more complicated. The practice of criminal law in Australia is increasingly embracing the time-honoured US model of down-and-dirty, pragmatic...
