slaw.ca blog today published a post, SCC decision in R. v. Grant: Do the ends justify the means?, commenting on a new judgment from the Supreme Court of Canada dealing with human rights, police questioning, search and seizure, and exclusion or reception of evidence.R v Grant, 2009 SCC 32 dealt with a common occurrence in …
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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 …
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. …
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 …
Further Edit: I accept that fully-recorded trials and "instant replays" are still a long way off. But perhaps they have moved a step closer with the Court of Appeal refusing to state a definitive rule about appellate courts reviewing recorded evidence in R v El Moustafa [2010] VSCA 40. There, the Court of Appeal chose …