Proposed new Sexual and Violent Offences law will not work, and will cause a procedural breakdown in the courts, says experienced barrister Ken Archer. Two other barristers are also highly critical, while Canberra Times Editor-at-Large Jack Waterford say…
Proposed new Sexual and Violent Offences law will not work, will cause a procedural breakdown in the courts, and will embarass the ACT Government, says experienced barrister Ken Archer. He contends the proposed legislation is rushed, biased and plain bad…
Possibly after quaffing too much of Jack Pomeroy’s Chateau Fleet Street, Patrick Jones (Letters, August 13), misses the point of recent criticism of the ACT’s Crimes (Controlled Operations) legislation.Possibly after quaffing too much of Jack Pomeroy’s C…
Police in the ACT have just received legislated power to break the law, and to allow criminals to break the law. CLA says this guarantees that there will be police corruption in the ACT within the next 5-10 years, if the pattern in every other jurisdicti…
Your editorial ("Issues of justice in Porritt case", August 9, pg6) quotes shadow attorney-general Bill Stefaniak in criticising the sentence given to Glen Porritt, saying that sentencing in the ACT "needs to be in line with what happens i…
The Hamdan case represents US ‘justice’ at a very low ebb. A concocted commission has ostensibly ‘judged’ a non-existent crime that was also both out of time and out of place. Dual qualified American-Australian lawyer Robert Briggs questions why the inte…