Autumn 2021

Read As Flip Book

Editor's Note

Criminal Law and Inquests Special Edition

President's Column

Choosing to Challenge

Opinion

The Trauma of Being a Witness
By Anthony Cheshire SC
In Search of the Crazy Rich Asians: Multiculturalism in Australia Post COVID-19
By Lee-May Saw
Enough of the 'horseplay'
By Madeleine Bridgett and Christine Melis
Respect@Work
By Kate Jenkins, Sex Discrimination Comissioner and Australian Human Rights Comissioner
A Tsunami of Complaints
By Jane Needham SC
Law and justice under a Biden administration
By Douglas McDonald-Norman

Recent Developments

Adverse comment on accused’s failure to give evidence - GBF v The Queen [2020] HCA 40
By Brett Hatfield
Forensic Provisions Act amendments
By Anina Johnson, Deputy President of the Mental Health Review Tribunal
Anshun estoppel and res judicata in respect of a foreign family law judgment: Clayton v Bant [2020] HCA 44
By Tereza Seric
Guess Who’s Back: The Reform of the Statutory Defence of Contextual Truth
By Jeremy Harrison
Majority of High Court upholds constitutionality of terrorist detention - Minister for Home Affairs v Benbrika [2021] HCA 4
By Belinda Baker
Constitutional Algebra - Palmer v Western Australia [2021] HCA 5
By Dr David Townsend
‘Inherited’ apprehended bias - a minefield for jurisdictional error
By Hayden Fielder reports on Oakey Coal Action Alliance Inc v New Acland Coal Pty Limited [2021] HCA 2

Features

Advocacy in coronial inquests: a seminar
By Donna Ward
Changing the landscape: inquest into the disappearance of Ben Dominick
By Ann Bonnor
Assessing credibility in the virtual court room
By Daniel Tynan
Burigon and His Son
By Elizabeth McLaughlin, Public Defender
Machina Sapiens Criminalis: Can AI entities be held criminally responsible?
By Farrid Assaf SC
The Justice Reform Initiative
By Nicholas Cowdery AO QC FAAL
A Short History of Criminal Law - Francis Forbes Society Australian Legal History Tutorials
By The Hon T F Bathurst, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales
Departing Directors
By Belinda Baker
The prosecutor’s duty of disclosure
By Catherine Gleeson
High Risk Offender Legislation
By Kellie Stares
Meet the Duty Barristers
On the road with Michael King, Deputy Senior Public Defender
By Kavita Balendra
The Court of Criminal Appeal interview with Justice Beech-Jones
By Helen Roberts

Interview

Advocate For Change: Interview with Dr Ben Gauntlett, Disability Discrimination Commissioner

Address

Trust In The Judiciary - 2021 Opening of Law Term Address

Practice

You’re almost 20, Corporations Act

News

A Brief Snapshot of the Personal Injury Commission of New South Wales
By Judge Gerard Phillips
The Opening of the Personal Injury Commission
By Kavita Balendra
David Heilpern AM - On His Retirement
By Stephen Lawrence and Jeremy Styles

Personalia

Habitat for Humanity - interview with Justice Lucy McCallum

Technology

Apps for Barristers - Liquid Text and Reincubate Camo

Appointments

Swearing in of Jacqueline Sarah Gleeson as a Judge of the High Court of Australia

Obituaries

The Honourable Anthony Frederick (Tony) Garling (1941-2021)
The Honourable Robert Shallcross Hulme QC (1941-2020)
Susanne (Sue) Elizabeth Schreiner (1939 - 2020)
The Honourable William (Henric) Nicholas QC (1942-2021)

Reviews

Australian Consumer Law - The Comprehensive Guide
Dead in the Water
Witness
The Law of Bankruptcy Notices and Creditors' Petitions
Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies by the Secret Barrister
The Truffle Hunters

Advocatus

Rethinking busyness

Bullfry

Bullfry cleans up his act

The Furies

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