Samantha a day ago 2 min Pearce v The Queen (1998) 194 CLR 610 Criminal Law, Sentencing, Multiple Offences Facts; Douglas Pearce was indicted upon to charges that arose out of a single episode: first...
Samantha a day ago 2 min Plaintiff S157/2002 v Commonwealth (2003) 211 CLR 476 Administrative review, Judicial review, Privative Clauses Facts; The plaintiff was a Bangladeshi who arrived in Australia in 1997 and...
Samantha a day ago 3 min Craig v South Australia (1995) 184 CLR 163 Administrative Law, Judicial Review, Jurisdictional Error Facts; Anthony Craig was charged in the district court of South Australia with...
Samantha a day ago 2 min Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v Wu Shan Liang (1996) 185 CLR 259 Administrative Law, Judicial Review, Beneficial construction Facts; Wu Shan Liang and two others were Chinese nationals who arrived in...
Samantha a day ago 3 min M v The Queen (1994) 181 CLR 487 Criminal Law, Appeals, Advantage of Jury Facts; M was convicted on two counts of indecent need assaulting and three counts of having...
Samantha a day ago 3 min Codelfa Construction Pty Ltd v State Rail Authority of NSW (1982) 149 CLR 337 Contract, Construction, Extrinsic materials Facts; The State Rail Authority of New South Wales entered into a contract with Codelfa...
Samantha a day ago 3 min Jones v Dunkel (1959) 101 CLR 298 Evidence, Calling witnesses, Inferences Facts; Daryl Jones’s husband was killed in a truck collision. She brought an action in the...
Samantha a day ago 3 min Project Blue Sky Inc v Australian Broadcasting Authority (1998) 194 CLR 355 Statutory interpretation, Text and context, Principles. Facts; The Australian broadcasting authority (ABA) promulgated a standard which...
Samantha a day ago 2 min General Steel Industries Inc v Commissioner for Railways (1964) 11 CLR 125 Procedure, Summary dismissals, and legal principles Facts; General Steel Industries owned a patent regarding their invention titled...
Samantha a day ago 2 min Briginshaw v Briginshaw (1938) 60 CLR 336 Evidence, Standard of Proof, Civil Proceedings Facts; Frederick Briginshaw sought to divorce his wife-Clarice Briginshaw – on the grounds...
terryangx Mar 31 5 min Understanding Cognitive Biases Intro From litigation to contract negotiations, the legal process is very entwined with the human condition. “Justice systems around the...
Samantha Mar 28 2 min House v The King (1936) 55 CLR 499 Appeals, Discretionary error, legal principles Facts; Under the Bankruptcy Act 1924 (Cth) Everard House was changed in relation to the...
Raychel Plath Mar 18 5 min What does the ALRC tell us about Procedural Justice? The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) operates independently from the Australian Government to investigate, research and recommend...
Kubra Yazici Mar 10 4 min Raising our Age, Means Raising our Standards When we think of children, we think of joyful, innocent human beings trying to discover themselves in the world. Each child deserves to...
Russell Michaelson Feb 23 2 min Working Your First Job Out of Law School - 4 Helpful Tips Surviving law school and the several months studying for your bar exam tests your mettle in so many ways. The grind challenges more than...
terryangx Feb 11 7 min Practical flaws of felony disenfranchisement and the social contract theory Preamble The social contract theory is a subtype of jurisprudential theory that describes the dynamic between state and individual. In...
Raychel Plath Feb 4 4 min Australia's Universal Periodic Review: Human "Wrongs" On 20 January 2021, Australia participated in their third cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) as part of their obligations as a...
Kubra Yazici Jan 28 3 min The Promised Land by Dr Martin Luther King Jr. In honour of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. (‘MLK’), we pay tribute to a historical 1960’s figure, of an African American man, a Baptist...
Samantha Jan 14 2 min Moments every Law Student has experienced at Law Ball: A Bridgerton Edition Since it's not week seven in the semester, there's no reason you shouldn't be bingeing your favourite shows on Netflix. It's finally the...
Anjori Mitra Dec 10, 2020 5 min Consciously Addressing Unconscious Bias It is now well known that the legal profession has some severe problems when it comes to diversity and inclusion. Firstly, it is often...
