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Law Report 2011-08-09 Canberra v Big Tobacco
Canberra and Big Tobacco are at war over plain packaging of cigarettes.
Proceeds of crime legislation
Federal prosecutors are trying to seize the profits from his autobiograghy. Guantanamo My Journey which has, since October last year, sold 30,000 copies.
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Law Report 2011-08-02 Justice Kevin Duggan
Last week Justice Kevin Duggan stepped down from the Supreme Court of South Australia.
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Law Report 2011-07-26 Planning processes and houses of worship
Have you ever tried obtaining planning approval to build or renovate a house? It's not easy is it!
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Law Report 2011-07-19 Ponki mediation
Ponki: the word means 'welcome' in the language of the Tiwi islands. It also means 'peace' or 'it's finished', and the spoken word is often accompanied by a hand gesture, waving the hand away from the body.
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Law Report 2011-07-12 Indigenous incarceration: jumping off the treadmill
Indigenous incarceration: the figures are shocking. But what can we do about it?
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Law Report 2011-07-05 Bankruptcy
Bankruptcy, it's how creditors recover money from insolvent borrowers. But is it too easy to obtain?
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Law Report 2011-06-28 Honest to goodness
Honest to goodness - it´s a quaint, old fashioned expression. But these innocuous words are centre-stage in a serious trademark dispute between a small family-run business and a supermarket giant.
Injunction prevents non lawyer from providing legal advice
Queenslander David John Walter has just been ordered to stop helping people with their court cases. After running the same unsuccessful argument in 10 matters, the courts have said enough, no more!
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Law Report 2011-06-21 Fremantle prison
Come on a tour of one of Australia´s most extraordinary buildings: Fremantle prison.
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Law Report 2011-06-14 The WA Supreme Court turns 150
The WA Supreme Court is celebrating its 150th birthday.
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Law Report 2011-06-07 Fair Work Ombudsman v Kentwood Industries
Five Chinese construction workers were paid $3 an hour over periods of between nine and fourteen months. They worked six days a week, lived in cramped conditions and when investigators started asking questions, they were told by their employer to lie about their pay and conditions.
Law and order on both sides of the Murray
Traditionally NSW is considered a tough-on-crime, throw-away-the-key type of place, while Victoria has a reputation as a softer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Law Report 2011-05-31 The right of prisoners to speak out
Should prisoners and those on parole be able to speak to the media? Convicted riot leader Lex Wotton is going to the High Court to argue that his strict parole conditions infringe his constitutional rights.
Billable units
When you hire a lawyer your bill goes up every time he or she spends six minutes looking at your file. A new report looks at the impact of this billing system and its connection to the prevalence of depression among lawyers.
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Law Report 2011-05-24 The view from WA
Traditionally Australian lawyers have been organised and regulated at a state and territory level. But a national profession is coming soon...well not everywhere. SA and WA are not jumping on board.
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Law Report 2011-05-17 Copyright and the courts
There's an on-going courtroom war between copyright holders and those who believe everyone should be able to download anything they want for free.
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Law Report 2011-05-10 Should expert witnesses and barristers be safe from being sued?
The UK has just overturned a 400-year-old legal doctrine. The Supreme Court has ruled that if an expert witness in a court case stuffs up, they can be sued.
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Law Report 2011-05-03 Decision making: law makers and law breakers
Imagine if your freedom depended on what a judge ate for breakfast? Sounds like a Kafka-esque nightmare? Fraid not! New research out of Israel has found that whether or not a judge grants parole is heavily connected to how close the case is heard to a break. Immediately after breakfast, morning tea and lunch, prisoners have a good chance of getting out, but as time drags and tummies gurgle the odds of freedom lengthen.
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Law Report 2011-04-26 Macarena Gelman
This week - the extraordinary story of Macarena Gelman, a young Uruguayan woman whose parents were killed by a military junta. As an infant Macarena was then given to a family close to the regime..... and for the next 20 years she did know her true identity.
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Law Report 2011-04-19 Twenty years on from Aboriginal Deaths in Custody report
It's been 20 years since the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. Fewer aboriginal people are dying in lock-ups and prisons, but more are in jail. And the situation for the next generation is dire. In our juvenile detention centres more than half the kids are indigenous. What are the solutions and will the next 20 years be any better?
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Law Report 2011-04-12 Virtual courts and the technological revolution
How far should our court system go in embracing new technology while still ensuring justice is being served?
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Law Report 2011-04-05 Lawyers and depression
Why are lawyers more susceptible to depression than any other professionals?
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Law Report 2011-03-29 Brandjacking on social networks
The case of the fake Facebook site of a footwear company that conned women into sending in photos for a bogus modelling competition.
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Law Report 2011-03-22 Marlon Noble
Marlon Noble is an intellectually disabled Aboriginal man who has spent the last 10 years in a WA prison.
Baby D
In a groundbreaking decision the Family Court, for the first time, spells out what parents can decide when faced with difficult treatment decisions for an ailing, severely disabled infant.
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Law Report 2011-03-15 Remembering the Birmingham Six, the Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven
It´s the 20th anniversary of the release of the Birmingham Six.
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Law Report 2011-03-08 - UPDATED International Women's Day
This Tuesday marks the 100th anniversary of International Women´s Day. In light of that, here´s a quiz.
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Law Report 2011-03-01 Vulture funds
Recently, a Sydney court ruled in favour of NY based company FG Hemisphere Associates. It buys the debts of desperately poor countries for a pittance and then fronts up to courts all around the world seeking to enforce the full amount of the debt plus interest.
WIPO director-general Francis Gurry: protecting copyright
The Full Court of the Federal Court recently ruled that internet service provider iiNet is not liable for illegal downloads by its subscribers.
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Law Report 2011-02-22 Prisons and information: flowing in, flowing out
Should prisoners be allowed to have computers in their cells? What about internet access?
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Law Report 2011-02-15 The courts and the media
Courts are in the business of conducting fair trials, while the media is in the business of getting stories out to the general public, fast.
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Law Report 2011-02-08 The trial of Leon Borthwick: Part 3
Part three of a special documentary series on the trial of Leon Borthwick -- the man found guilty of the manslaughter of Mark Zimmer.
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Law Report 2011-02-01 The trial of Leon Borthwick: Part 2
Victims of crime: what do they make of criminal trials?
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Law Report 2011-01-25 The trial of Leon Borthwick: Part 1
On 16 November 2008, teenager Mark Zimmer was run over by Leon Borthwick. Mark died at the scene and Leon was charged with murder. Two years later, Leon was sentenced to seven and a half years for manslaughter.
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Law Report 2011-01-18 The strange alchemy of life and law
Have you ever imagined what it would be like to be a judge?
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Law Report 2011-01-11 Peremptory challenges
Each year about 170,000 Australian are summoned for jury duty. They arrive at court ready to take their place in the jury box. But for quite a few that's as far as they get, because at that point barristers give all the potential jurors 'the once over'. And if a barrister doesn´t like the look of you, you´re out on your ear.
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Law Report 2011-01-04 Breaking the cycle
For years Bethlehem House, a homeless men's shelter in Hobart, was the first port of call for many released prisoners. But without life skills or support, a big percentage soon reverted to crime.
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Law Report 2010-12-28 The Chamberlain case: the lessons learned
Thirty years ago, on 17th of August 1980, nine-week-old baby Azaria went missing at Ayres Rock.
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Law Report 2010-12-21 Mahatma Gandhi: from lawyer to national liberator
With Christmas almost upon us, it's an opportunity to think about how faith, hope and strength can come in its many different forms.
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Law Report 2010-12-14 Julian Assange
A London court is about to hear arguments on whether or not to extradite him to Sweden to face questions over alleged sexual misconduct.
Bio-piracy
The Kakadu plum controversy. A US cosmetics company is seeking a patent over an extract from a plant that has been used for thousands of years by Indigenous communities in Australia. And as we hear, this is not the first case of this kind.
EXTRA AUDIO: Sharon Venne
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Law Report 2010-12-07 Medical research
Human guinea pigs: balancing the risks and benefits of participating in medical research.
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Law Report 2010-11-30 Forced marriage
Forced marriage: do we need specific laws to protect vulnerable women and children? And what are we doing right now to protect people from being sent overseas to a future they don´t want?
Presidential pardons in the USA
In the USA the annual presidential pardon of a Thanksgiving turkey has focused attention on another much more serious presidential power. US presidents have an unfettered right to pardon any federal offender. It´s a controversial power, and one President O ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Law Report 2010-11-23 M61 and M69
The High Court recently blow a big hole in the federal government's offshore asylum-seeker processing scheme.
Bail laws in NSW
Is the NSW bail system too tough or too weak? Are the accused locked up when they needn´t be? And will a new Act get the balance right?
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Law Report 2010-11-16 South Australia v Totani
Outlaw bikie gangs score a big legal win against the SA government. The High Court strikes down laws which prevent gang members from associating with each other.
The Queen v Nguyen
The case of three men who burst into a flat - one was wielding a sword, another a gun.
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Law Report 2010-11-09 The perils of investigative reporting
A conversation with veteran journalists Chris Masters and Paul Barry on the legal perils of investigative reporting.
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Law Report 2010-11-02 The defence of provocation
Queensland man Andrew Murray Pollock killed his father back in 2004. The High Court recently quashed his murder conviction and sent him back for what will be a third trial.
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Law Report 2010-10-26 Where there's a will, there's a way
Many Indigenous Australians don´t have wills. Partly it´s because a lot of people in remote communities live outside the mainstream economy. But of course when it comes to art production these communities are centre stage and some of the artists are highly successful both artistically and commercially.
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Law Report 2010-10-19 Compulsory land acquisition
We think of our home as our castle. But if government wants to build a road, a railway line, a desalination plant or anything else, they can take your home, there´s no question!
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Law Report 2010-10-12 Crime statistics and the trouble with knives
In the past 18 months, Victoria has passed strong stop and search laws - strengthening them recently with amendments - to combat the problem of knife crimes. South Australia and Western Australia are also drafting legislation to tackle the knife problem.
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Law Report 2010-10-05 Wild Rivers
Last week Tony Abbott announced his intention to introduce a private members's bill that would quash Qld´s controversial Wild Rivers legislation. Meanwhile the ALP has announced that a House of Reps Committee will examine the all aspects of the Queensland law.
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Law Report 2010-09-28 The Dianne Brimble Case eight years on
Hours after Dianne Brimble a boarded a cruise ship she died in the cabin of a man she'd just met. An autotopsy revealed high levels of alcohol and the presence of the drug GHB in her blood stream.
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Law Report 2010-09-21 Australia's complex and conflicting inheritance laws
Australia has a patchwork of different, and conflicting, succession laws. You´d think 110 years after federation, we´d have the same laws governing wills, family provision and intestacy.
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Law Report 2010-09-14 The strange alchemy of life and law
Have you ever imagined what it would be like to be a judge?
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Law Report 2010-09-07 Land clearing litigation
Meet Peter Spencer, the NSW farmer who says that restrictive land clearing laws amount to the government seizing his property without compensation.
Up-skilling judges
Meet Justice Robyn Layton, the retiring South Australian Supreme Court judge who spends a lot of her time helping to train her fellow judges.
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