by Chris Merritt | Aug 9, 2024 | Attorney General, Chris Merritt, Commentary, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
As the peak national body of the legal profession, the Law Council faces a mighty challenge: distilling the views of 104,000 lawyers, sixteeen constituent bodies and the nation’s largest law firms. On some issues this must be difficult. But when it comes to the core...
by Chris Merritt | Aug 1, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, ICAC, Media Article
Every now and then, a dissenting judgement in an important court case is so persuasive it makes injustice impossible to ignore. Mark Weinberg’s dissent over the flawed criminal conviction of the late Cardinal George Pell on child sex abuse charges is the prime...
by Chris Merritt | Jul 25, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Freedom of Speech, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
Back in March, when the federal government established an inquiry into civics education, it tweaked the terms of reference in a way some might consider to be just a little too clever. Four months earlier, a wave of concern about censorship of the internet caused the...
by Chris Merritt | Jul 19, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Defamation, Media Article
This month was supposed to mark the restoration of legal certainty after one of the most unfortunate decisions ever handed down by the High Court. The nation’s governments had agreed that something had to be done about the court’s 2021 decision in defamation...
by Rule of Law Staff | Jul 17, 2024 | Commentary, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
he US Supreme Court majority decision in Trump v United States did not offend the rule of law. On January 6, 2021, after a mob attacked the Capitol Building in Washington DC, Donald Trump was indicted for conspiracy to overturn the election by spreading knowingly...
by Rule of Law Staff | Jul 12, 2024 | Commentary, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
The US Supreme Court majority decision in Trump v United States did not offend the rule of law. On January 6, 2021, after a mob attacked the Capitol Building in Washington DC, Donald Trump was indicted for conspiracy to overturn the election by spreading knowingly...
