The AFP should adopt recommendations of a Canadian inquiry into stun guns, CLA says. The report of the Commission for Public Complaints against the Royal Canadian Mounted Police is a sensible, balanced analysis and approach to using these potentially let…
CLA says the ACT Government’s review of the Road Transport (Alcohol and Drugs) Act raises serious ‘fair go’ questions about whether random drug testing (RDT) is either appropriate or viable; whether delaying 1 in 7 drivers tested for 30 minutes is reason…
A bill prohibiting discrimination and bias by health insurers and employers based on people’s genes has passed both Houses of the US Congress by a vote of 509-1. The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act is a powerful shield for Americans. Meanwhile,…
Who is being wrongly convicted in 2008, asks Keith McEwan as he reviews a book by and about a woman who spent virtually all the 1990s behind bars, wrongly convicted. Framed by a police officer in a conspiracy with her own husband, she needed enormous str…
CLA spokesman Max Jeganathan’s comments are being read far and wide, with the US legal website Jurist asking for what CLA thought of AFP Commissioner Michael Keelty’s recent outburst against the media. Read what Max said.
See the article on the ‘Jurist…
The NSW Council for Civil Liberties helped to break the back of archaic Australian censorship laws by taking the fight to Sydney’s streets, which were then rife with police corruption. The Liberating of Lady Chatterley and Other True Stories is the tale…
Virginia Hausseger’s summary of what happens in a rape trial was accurate except when she says that the victim will be questioned about her sexual history and number of partners and that the jurors will therefore draw from that a view about her morality.…
The Speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, Mr Polley, is trying to ban someone from Parliament and its precincts for six months…but it appears he doesn’t have the power to do so and, if he did have, he’s chosen the wrong premiss.
Speaker Mic…
Attorney-General Ruddock is criticising lawyers and civil libertarians who are championing the rule of law in Australia, and supporting an Immigration Minister who is denying the presumption of innocence and a police force leaking against all the rules o…
A Minister with a track record of not respecting democratically-enacted law has spat in the face of the judiciary by locking up, by his own bureaucratic decision, a man freed on bail earlier the same day by a magistrate. Zimbabwe? A Middle Eastern dictat…
