Interesting articles, speeches and podcasts
Fri Mar 05 2021Admission of lawyers by the Honourable T F Bathurst AC at Newcastle City Hall - "Even as Chief Justice, my decisions have, on occasion, been successfully appealed to the High Court. At this point, I am probably obliged to tell you that the High Court is never wrong."
Ceremonial sitting to welcome the Honourable Justice Jacqueline Sarah Gleeson as a justice of the High Court of Australia, 1 March 2021
The cold case secret in a Brisbane garage on Conversations with Richard Fidler
Commerce and COVID-19 : a song of pandemic and insolvency by Carmel Lee and Jonathon Dooley of Greenway Chambers - some COVID-19 related articles
Constitutional recognition : two decades on by Megan Davis on Aus Pub Law - considers Indigenous constitutional recognition in Australia
Deposition of Thomas Johnson, County : Mayo, Date : 14/1/1644 - cows could not read and therefore were not allowed "the benefit of clergy"
Finding today's slaves : lessons learned from over a decade of measurement in modern slavery by Davina Durgana at University of Oxford
The relationship between parliament and the voice and the importance of enshrinement by Geoffrey Lindell on Indigenous Constitutional Law - considers the importance of establishing a constitutional relationship between the proposed national First Nations Voice and the Parliament
The Joint Standing Committee on Northern Australia's Inquiry into the destruction of 46,000 year old caves at the Juukan Gorge in the Pilbara region of Western Australia public hearing on 19 February 2021 - "should be a coordinated scheme of complementary state and territory and Commonwealth legislation... Commonwealth legislation would operate to accredit state legislation that satisfied national standards. If state legislation was accredited, the Commonwealth legislation would play no further role"
Law Report (ABC) for 2 March presented by Damian Carrick - Disability Royal Commissioner Ron Sackville. And legal win for Torres Strait native title holders
Prioritising identity and culture for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children by Justice J R Sackar at the NSW Child Protection Legal Conference
The Wigs Podcast from Stephen Lawrence (Black Chambers), Emmanuel Kerkyasharian (Forbes Chambers), Felicity Graham (Black Chambers) and Jim Minns - Life of a medieval lawyer