In 1973 the United States Supreme Court handed down the decision in Roe v Wade 93 S.Ct. 705 (1973) (Roe v Wade). This decision held that the right to privacy…
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Did the Legislative Reforms and Redress Scheme for CSA Survivors Go Far Enough?
Several legislative reforms have taken place since the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) released its final recommendations in 2017, with Victoria and New South Wales…
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Safe Access Zone Laws: a Burden on Implied Freedom of Political Communication?
Unlike the United States, Australia has no equivalent to the First Amendment right of free speech. Instead, Australians have an implied right of freedom of political communication arising from the…
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Spotlight on Uniform Evidence Law: Stephen Odgers SC on the 13th Edition [Q&A]
From the uniform evidence law’s formative stages through to its adoption in six jurisdictions, leading barrister and lecturer Stephen Odgers SC has helped pave the way by providing commentary written…
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Intimate Family Violence and the Abolition of Defensive Homicide
In 2014, Victoria abolished the offence of defensive homicide following a “widely held perception that it was being abused by violent men”. Despite having been abolished, defensive homicide made appearances…
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Summary Procedure Reform in South Australia: The Abolition of Complaints and the Use of Informations
Following the abolition of the “complaint” instrument in the recent summary procedure shake-up in South Australia (SA), criminal lawyers will need to be more alert to classifying the offence in…
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Saul Holt QC on the Launch of Butler and Holt’s Indictable Offences Queensland [Q&A]
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Download Chapter 33 of Indictables Offences Queensland– the essential guide to the law governing serious crime in Queensland. Chapter 33 deals with offences with the common feature of unlawfully depriving a person…
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Indictable Offences Queensland: Chapter 32 – Rape and Sexual Assaults [Sample Chapter]
Download chapter 32 of Indictables Offences Queensland – the essential guide to the law governing serious crime in Queensland. Chapter 32 deals primarily with sexual offending against adults where absence of…
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Intoxication: A Double-Edged Defence in Australian Criminal Law
The problem of alcohol- and drug-fuelled violence has been in the news recently. These stories place a spotlight squarely on the issue of intoxication and crime in Australian criminal law.
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