Keeping Legal Costs Down
Are you going to court but don’t want to spend a fortune? Lawyers don’t come cheap, but they can make all the difference to the outcome of your case. Anecdotes about greedy lawyers abound, but there are many ethical lawyers...
Interpol: Catching Criminals or Persecuting Scapegoats?
The International Criminal Police Organisation, or ‘Interpol’, is a police force recognised by the United Nations and established to stop globe-trotting criminals from evading reprisals. From political targets like Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to Osama Bin Laden, Interpol has been...
Spotting a Psychopath
In March this year, the family of 31-year-old Morgan Huxley sobbed as a Supreme Court jury found Daniel Lee Kelsall guilty of his murder. 22-year-old Kelsall was convicted of indecently assaulting Huxley in a Neutral Bay apartment on September 8, 2013,...
Supermax Prisons: More Harm than Good?
In August this year, Stephen Jamieson famously scaled the perimeter wall of Goulburn prison to escape, using bed sheets and a pillow to protect himself from the razor wire. Officers caught up with Jamieson less than 10 hours later, placing...
Animal Cruelty to a Mouse
26-year-old Bradley Wilson was convicted of aggravated cruelty after nearly biting a mouse in half. Wilson put the live mouse into his mouth, pulled off its tail, bit down on it and the spat it to the ground. The little...
Another Video of Police Brutality Prompts Internal Review
The Queensland Police Force will undergo an internal review following multiple incidents of police brutality, a number of which have been documented in our past blogs. The incidents have led to the appointment of a senior internal police investigator to...
Lawyers Who Engage in Fraud
The Legal Aid Commission plays an integral role in the NSW justice system; providing disadvantaged people with legal advice and representation across the state. Part of the Commission’s role is to assign cases to private law firms, who represent the...
Five Fascinating High Court Justices
Since our High Court was established in 1903, we have had 12 Chief Justices and 42 Justices - all with interesting stories to tell. Here, we attempt to narrow the list down to just five of the most fascinating. 1....
How Reliable is Facial Recognition Evidence?
There have been numerous examples of where the use of ‘expert’ evidence has led to miscarriages of justice. And identification evidence is notoriously unreliable, resulting in the convictions of hundreds of innocent people in the US alone. But what about...
Would You Buy a Property that was the Scene of a Murder?
If you’re a fan of Channel Nine’s reality show The Block, you may have heard the grisly rumours about the latest property to be developed. It has emerged that the former hotel, located in South Yarra in Victoria, was the...
