Barrister and lecturer Andrew Palmer was commissioned to prepare a number of summaries of the Evidence Act 2008 for the Department of Justice and Judicial College.While the one page summaries will be useful to refer to once the new rules are up and running, an overview of all the changes is provided in the Ready …
Day: August 26, 2009
High Court bags court trying teabagging
In April I posted Teabagging begs questions of constitutional validity for courts, based on an article on Skepticlawyer that caught my eye.The High Court today delivered that decision, in Lane v Morrison [2009] HCA 29.Mr Lane was a member of the Royal Australian Navy. He was accused of teabagging a superior officer, and charged with …