by Chris Merritt | Jan 16, 2025 | Chris Merritt, Class Actions, Commentary, Media Article
Right now, companies are failing at a record rate. So can anyone think of a worse time to create a new way of suing business? Unfortunately, that’s exactly what federal parliament did on November 29 when it approved a new statutory tort for serious invasions of...
by Chris Merritt | Jan 9, 2025 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
Last November, when the federal government rammed through more than 30 pieces of legislation on the final day of parliament, some saw it as a startling departure from proper parliamentary practice. Senator Jackie Lambie came close to securing majority support in the...
by Chris Merritt | Jan 2, 2025 | All Posts, Chris Merritt, Commentary, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue, Sexual Assault
In less than three weeks, the Australian Law Reform Commission is due to hand Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus a report on one of the most fraught issues confronting the justice system: sexual assault. The failure of the Bruce Lehrmann rape trial in the ACT was merely...
by Chris Merritt | Dec 28, 2024 | All Posts, Chris Merritt, Commentary, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
In the months ahead, we can expect to be deluged with all sorts of promises from politicians about the laws they intend to enact after the coming federal election.When assessing those promises you should keep in mind that the erosion of liberty is sometimes dressed up...
by Chris Merritt | Dec 13, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, ICAC, Media Article
NSW premier Chris Minns has just been given a valuable if traumatic lesson about the true impact on that state of its Independent Commission Against Corruption. The question now is whether this will be enough to persuade the Labor government to fix a problem that has...
