You may have noticed our posts were fewer and far between in September. Well, I've been busy ...Luke Manhattan was born this week. This photo was taken when he was three hours old.Welcome to the world, little man.
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All Dunn
For the most part I've so far avoided in this blog discussing personalities in our legal system, even though there are some larger-than-life characters who frequent our courts, both on the Bench and at the Bar Table.Today I'm making an exception to that self-imposed rule.Today, my former colleague, mentor, and my friend, Ian Dunn, retires …
Mental illness over-represented?
Edit: The SAC did publish something on their website on 6th July about mental illness in sentencing appeals, but really it was just a one page overview with a link back to the Sentence Appeals in Victoria Statistical Research Report that it had released back in March.It's possible that the information is in there in …
Counting widgets
The Chief Justice of Victoria delivered a speech at the University of Melbourne on 1 May 2012 titled, Courts and Democracy - Just another Government Agency?. A variation of it was published as an opinion piece, No place for justice on a conveyor belt, in The Age last Thursday. Both built upon a previous theme …
Many happy returns
Welcome one and all for another year. While we've been gone Novak Djokovic strode away with another piece of silverware. Community Correction Orders were introduced. Sydney suburbs were peppered with gang bullets. And sadly, Magistrate Maurie Gurvich passed away. We belatedly pay our respects to the memory of a conscientious and dedicated judicial character.We've taken …