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 11, 2024 | Commentary, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
Why were we so shocked to learn this week that a significant proportion of would-be citizens struggle to understand ideas like the rule of law and democracy? Their failure, while regrettable, is merely a symptom of a wider malaise in civics education that is...
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...
by Chris Merritt | Dec 22, 2023 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
Sally Dowling SC took office as NSW Director of Public Prosecutions in August 2021. Just over a year later, in September, 2022, she was put on notice by the District Court that there was something “troubling” about the way her organisation had applied its prosecution...
