Author adminPosted on Categories Criminal law, Defamation, Legal profession 7 Comments on Debacle after Bruce Lehrmann charges dropped
Bruce Lehrmann, the former parliamentary political staffer who was accused of raping a colleague named Brittany Higgins at Parliament House has had all charges dropped again him.
This occurred after the trial had to be postponed because Lisa Wilkinson gave a speech at The Logie Awards, and when the trial finally took place, the jury had to be discharged because of juror misconduct.
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Author adminPosted on Categories Criminal law 1 Comment on Chris Dawson sentenced to 24 years imprisonment
In August, Former Sydney schoolteacher and rugby league star Chris Dawson was found guilty of murdering his first wife Lynette Dawson following a long judge-only trial.
Chris Dawson was yesterday sentenced to 24 years in prison for this crime.
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Author adminPosted on Categories Criminal law 7 Comments on Kristina Keneally’s son pleads not guilty to fabricating evidence
Last month, Constable Daniel Keneally was charged with fabricating evidence. This charge arose from Keneally submitting a report of a man named Luke Moore threatening to kill a police officer, which resulted in Moore being refused bail and spending time in jail for three weeks.
Moore had apparently recorded his discussion with Keneally jnr, and it is alleged that recording showed that Keneally’s report was false.
A Sydney court has been informed Constable Daniel Keneally will contest the charge.
Constable Daniel Keneally is the son of former NSW Premier and federal Senator Kristina Keneally.
Author adminPosted on Categories Judiciary 3 Comments on When is a Judge disqualified for bias?
A decision-maker being impartial is one of the core requirements of natural justice.
In the 19th century, Lord Campbell in Dimes [1852] EngR 789 said that “no man is to be a judge in his own cause”.
As a majority of the High Court noted in Ebner v The Official Trustee in Bankruptcy [2000] HCA 63:
“Fundamental to the common law system of adversarial trial is that it is conducted by an independent and impartial tribunal. Perhaps the deepest historical roots of this principle can be traced to Magna Carta (with its declaration that right and justice shall not be sold)”.
Author adminPosted on Categories Criminal law 2 Comments on Queensland forensic lab boss Cathie Allen accused of lying
The commission of inquiry into QLD’s lab scandal has heard Managing scientist of Queensland Health’s Forensic and Scientific Services Cathie Allen recommended for amplification of low-level DNA samples without concentration, when concentration could have detected more serious criminals, but which would cost Queensland Health an estimated $20,000 less and generate less workload for lab staff.
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Author adminPosted on Categories Criminal law 8 Comments on Bruce Lehrmann’s rape trial jury discharged
The ACT jury of Bruce Lehrmann’s trial for the alleged rape of former Liberal staffer Brittany Higgins has been discharged.
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Author adminPosted on Categories Criminal law 6 Comments on Son of Kristina Keneally charged with fabricating evidence
Kristina Keneally is a former Premier of NSW and Labor federal Senator.
Earlier this year, she failed to win the federal seat of Fowler from her residence situated at Scotland Island, a water-borne community situated in an estuary called Pittwater, part of Broken Bay in northern Sydney, New South Wales, and lost to local Vietnamese immigrant Dai Le.
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Author adminPosted on Categories Personal Injury 3 Comments on The question of reasonable foreseeability of injury
It is a well-established principle in the law of negligence that a defendant should only have to take precautions against reasonably foreseeable risks to others. Reasonable foreseeability can be contrasted with risks that are “far fetched or fanciful”.
The 2013 Queensland Court of Appeal cases of Heywood v Commercial Electrical Pty Ltd [2013] QCA 270 and Suncorp Staff Pty Ltd v Larkin [2013] QCA 281 are useful reminders of the centrality of the concept of reasonable foreseeability of risk in negligence cases against employers.
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Author adminPosted on Categories Criminal law 3 Comments on Chris Dawson guilty of murdering his first wife Lynette Dawson
Former high school teacher and rugby league player Chris Dawson has been found guilty of murdering his wife Lynette Dawson after a long Judge-only trial.
Lynette Dawson, 33, disappeared from their Bayview home on Sydney’s northern beaches on 9 January 1982, more than forty years ago. She left behind their two young daughters Shanelle and Sherryn, then aged four and two, and has never been found.
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Author adminPosted on Categories Human rights 2 Comments on Further revelations of Public Trustee of Queensland’s gouging of estates
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.”
The Public Trustee of Queensland is a public body charged with managing the finances of some of the most vulnerable members of the community, including those lacking capacity and prisoners.
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