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I’ve posted recently about the invidious position in which victims of institutional child sex abuse who are serving time in Australian jails find themselves. Obtaining appropriate compensation for their abuse is being hindered…

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was a watershed moment in highlighting the widespread abuse of children in care over many decades. With the inquiry’s broad-reaching recommendations, including directions…

Over the past few months, if you have been paying attention to the Board of Inquiry into the Criminal Justice System you could have easily been left with the impression that the ACT…

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…

Sometime today, the report of Walter Sofronoff KC, the end product of the Inquiry into the ACT Criminal Justice System, will be presented to the ACT Government. Recent media reporting suggests that the…

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…

The first week of public hearings in the Inquiry into the Criminal Justice System in the Australian Capital Territory (the Inquiry) have made one thing very clear: the cracks in the criminal justice…

On 26 February 2023, Corrections Officers carrying out routine checks on detainees at the Alexander Maconochie Centre (AMC) happened upon the body of Mr Justin Cordy. A statement issued by the ACT Justice…

Queanbeyan police officers arrested an elderly woman on Thursday 2 February 2023, who was accused of stealing flowers from people’s gardens in Queanbeyan. The woman apparently then gets on the bus to Canberra…