We said we'd finish blogging on 18 December, so I figure I can sneak this post in before our recess! (Though Feedburner will email it to many of you tomorrow on 19 December.)Catching up on my RSS feeds today I came across a Victorian Government feed-link to the Victorian Government Solicitor's Office Human Rights Portal.I …
Month: December 2009
Blogging off
Thanks to all the contributors, commentators and well-wishers who have chimed in to make QCIC everything it has been this year.As we prepare to close out the year, a reminder that there's a number of ways to search for previous posts that you've seen here and want to read again.On the right side of the …
Tipping the scales of justice
Anyone who’s practiced in the summary jurisdiction for more than five minutes will have had the pleasure of appearing before one or other of our more interventionist magistrates.Sometimes it’s just annoying, as for instance, your cross-examination is going along quite nicely thank you, gates are being closed one after the other, and the magistrate, unable …
You'd have to be Einstein …
If you have already found the time to crack open (or download) the new Evidence Act 2008 you may have come to the conclusion that you'd need to be Einstein to figure out all of its contradictory and laborious provisions.You might be right.Justice Clifford Einstein has been a QC since 1987 and was appointed a …
You’d have to be Einstein …
If you have already found the time to crack open (or download) the new Evidence Act 2008 you may have come to the conclusion that you'd need to be Einstein to figure out all of its contradictory and laborious provisions.You might be right.Justice Clifford Einstein has been a QC since 1987 and was appointed a …