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- Latest decision: Full Federal Court requires Government to prove removal safe
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- Comprehensive Australian legal material at AustLii and Foundation Law
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Papers
Articles
- R v Rouse
- R v Ronald Ryan
- The Dred Scott case
- People v Leopold & Loeb
- R v Pemberton Billing
- R v Kiszko
- R v Casement
- Ernest Hooley: the Jubilee Cotton Mills case
- The Dreyfus affair
- R v Edward (Ned) Kelly
- R v Oscar Slater
- R v Crippen
- R v Rattenbury & Stoner
- The Adolf Beck case
- The Scottsboro Boys
- Concepts of liability
- Creative Litigation
Transcripts
Legal Books
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Speeches & Papers
- The New Terror; Gunpowder Plot to Guantanamo – Full Circle in 400 years
- The Dreyfus Affair
- “Towards a Just Society – Beyond the Spin” Stephen Murray-Smith Memorial lecture 2002
- Authoritarianism in the Name of Freedom
- Honesty Matters – Jesuit Lenten series, Xavier College 23 Feb 2005
- Sir Ninian Stephen Lecture Newcastle University March 2004
- Speech in honour of John Marsden’s life membership award at NSW Council for Civil Liberties 4 March 2005
- The Art of Dissent – 3rd annual Music Council of Australia address
- Why Bother – 6th annual Peggy Glanville-Hicks address
- Concepts of liability
- Creative Litigation
Courts
I do not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but I believe the gentleman is an attorney.
– Samuel Johnson
- High Court of Australia – list of business
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- U.S. Supreme Court
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Overseas Decisions
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Australian Decisions
- Full Federal Court requires Government to prove removal safe: QAAH v Minister for Immigration & Multicultural & Indigenous Affairs
- Federal Court judge exposes DIMIA’s inadequate care for mental health of detainees: S v Secretary of DIMIA
- Detention of children constitutional: re Woolley
- Indefinite detention– al Khateb, al Khafaji
- Inhumane conditions in detention constitutionally valid: Behrooz
- Failed refugee applicants can be removed regardless of the risk that they will self-harm or suicide: Federal Court decision in WAJZ, decided 14 October 2004
- Recent case on the rights of people held in custody: Re Rigoli [2005] VSCA 325