Civil Liberties Australia

The frustrations with a High Court which got it totally wrong in the Derek Bromley case may be countered by a novel way of securing a ‘different verdict’. Dr Bob Moles explains how fraud might be able to trump criminal law. Elsewhere in this issue, read about the shocking coronial situation exposed in the Senate, judges all over the place…and a federal Human Rights Act campaign about to be refreshed.

Other highlights this issue include:

• Governments and agencies failing the nation’s children
• CLA calls for full Commission of Inquiry in Tasmania’s ’Two Decades of Error'
• Security Monitor to probe accuracy and over-use of terrorism laws
• How reliable are decades-old memories, of kids and septuagenarians?
• A-G ’sentences’ three prisoners to six years more jail on his own say-so
• Lies are legally OK in the USA

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Parliament regularly passes laws that infringe Australians’ human rights: here’s a rundown from just one recent report. As we debate whether the Senator or the King transgressed more, experts are saying new conservative governments in the north are 'taking our kids back to the darker ages'. A judge blames everyone but judges for a low opinion of the legal system, but examples abound of how the quality of the law is much strained, particularly in the south, by judicial shenanigans.

Other highlights in this issue include:

• Ask no questions, find no corruption: new ICAC methodology 
• Dreyfus wants to shut Robodebt stable door: passing a HR Act will do it
• Research body launches police ‘misbehaviour’ dashboard 
• $100m to be wasted on wrong type of kids’ ‘jail’ system
• Abiding by human rights helps national trade…even with World Cups
• US judge recants: frees prisoner jailed for 5 life terms after mere 27 years

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