Blog.

Every ACT citizen should be troubled by the announcement yesterday that the ACT is going to introduce mandatory verdicts for jury trials.  It is a disappointing sign that our Government has joined a…

A man who was found not guilty of attempted murder due to mental impairment a few years ago has recently engaged in a similar attack at the same location. Commentary on social media…

Despite the ACT Government’s best attempts, it is no great surprise that the the report of Walter Sofronoff KC, the end product of the Inquiry into the ACT Criminal Justice System, very quickly…

For the past 5 years, the Office of the Special Investigator (“the OSI”), lead by Mr Geoffrey Nettle KC, has been investigating the scandal involving Victorian criminal defence lawyer, Ms Nicola Gobbo (known…

Kathleen Folbigg was convicted of murdering her 4 infant children in 2003.  She was labelled Australia’s worst female serial killer.  On Monday this week, she was granted a full pardon and released from…

If you haven’t been living under a rock this past week you too would have been horrified to learn that a 95-year-old woman, Clare Nowland, suffering from dementia, was tasered by Senior Constable…

Corporal punishment, in the form of ‘reasonable chastisement’, remains lawful in the home throughout Australia. Physically punishing kids has become more controversial in recent years with many calls for corporal punishment to be…

The surge of the true crime space within the online community has revealed an unending desire for true crime content. Since the secret is out, bite sized clips, podcasts and numerous docuseries have…

On Saturday, The Australian published an explosive story by Janet Albrechtsen and Stephen Rice that revealed what those of us in the inner circles of the ACT criminal justice system have known for…

In August 2015, Mr Danny Lim was in the suburb of Edgecliff in Sydney in New South Wales wearing a sandwich board across which was written “TONY YOU CUN’T” on the front. NSW…