Threat of force ≠ fear of force

Lexis Nexis and Thomson-Reuters are the two big legal publishers in the legal market, here and in the USA, UK and NZ. They publish under different brands, with the best known probably Butterworths, Sweet & Maxwell, and Law Book Co.They're not the only players though. Several smaller publishers exist, amongst them OUP Australia and Federation …

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CPS gets its first advocacy report-card

The United Kingdom has a fairly complex criminal justice system, with many agencies and review agencies.I don't really know enough about the system to say if it's a good or a bad thing, but there's no doubt there's a lot of activity, and there have been a lot of major changes over the last decade. …

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Marron M flies south

Moving south for a better quality of life is a tactic more familiar to the US than Australia.Reg Marron has resigned his appointment after 5 years as a Victorian magistrate, following a decade at the Victorian Bar. He leaves his role as the coordinating magistrate for the north-east region of the Magistrates' Court of Victoria …

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