by Chris Merritt | Feb 8, 2024 | 18C, Chris Merritt, Human Rights, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
Tom Bathurst, the former chief justice of NSW, has been handed a task that has proved to be beyond the capacity of the best brains in the NSW parliament.He has been asked to review a law that is incapable of dealing with the worst of the anti-Semitic bile that has...
by Chris Merritt | Feb 1, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
Ken Hayne is a most unlikely revolutionary. But when future historians seek to identify those responsible for the great turning points in corporate law, this former High Court judge could emerge as first among equals. Standing with Hayne will be at least two...
by Chris Merritt | Jan 26, 2024 | Attorney General, Chris Merritt, Commentary, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
When Mark Dreyfus unveiled his terms of reference for an inquiry into sexual assault law, he knew what he wanted. The Attorney-General specifically required the Australian Law Reform Commission to consider what happened at a meeting he convened on August 23 last...
by Chris Merritt | Jan 19, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Media Article, Model Litigant
Last November, when Mark Dreyfus unveiled his plan to protect some losing parties in civil litigation from adverse costs orders, he said it was all about addressing “power disparities”. What a pity the Attorney-General’s concern about the imbalance in financial power...
by Chris Merritt | Jan 4, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Human Rights, ICAC, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
On one level, this is a tale of two mining companies – one owned by Chinese communists and the other owned by Australians and Americans. But on another level, it is a warning: what happened to these companies is proof that equality before the law – one of the...
by Chris Merritt | Dec 31, 2023 | Chris Merritt, Human Rights, ICAC, Media Article
Back in March, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus set the wheels in motion for what could turn out to be a difficult chapter in Labor’s unending quest for a federal charter of rights. For a while, this proposal looked like plain sailing. Dreyfus asked the Labor-dominated...
