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Most people in Canberra will be familiar with personal injury advertisements on the radio, in the Canberra Times, or on TV before and during Kung Fu Panda 4. They usually promise to recover…

“But shouldn’t it be based on merit?” I hear this statement so often, mainly from middle-aged, upper-middle-class white men discussing gender-based quotas in forums such as board composition, leadership positions and equitable briefing….

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse heard evidence about the struggle survivors face in getting compensation from the institutions that failed to protect them. These are issues my colleagues have written extensively…

A couple of months ago I travelled to the Northern Territory to undertake an internship at an Aboriginal Family Legal Service center in both Darwin and Katherine. This was an eye-opening experience that…

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…