The latest Part of the Australian Law Journal contains the following articles: “Crime Commissions and Compulsory Examinations: Whither the Right to Silence?” – Hon T F Bathurst AC and Sarah Schwartz; “Ramifications of the Recognition of a Common Fund in Australian Class Actions: An Early Appraisal” – Michael Legg; “The Case Against a National Court of Appeal” – Shawn Rajanayagam. This Part also includes the following sections: Current Issues; Letter to the Editor; Conveyancing and Property; The Legal Observer; Personalia; Around the Nation: Tasmania; Corporations and Securities; From the Law Schools; Admiralty and Maritime; Recent Cases; Book Reviews; and Obituary.
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This Part of the Northern Territory Law Journal includes the following article based on a paper originally presented at the Criminal Lawyers Association of the Northern Territory (CLANT) Conference in 2015: “Ethics and etiquette” – Justice Graham Hiley RFD and Kate Bulling; the articles “The right to silence” –
David Morters; “Driving whilst disqualified – A case for change” – Julian R Murphy and Hugo Moodie; as well as a ceremonial sitting to welcome the Hon Chief Justice Michael Grant as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory; and a Generalia section on legal posts, appointments and movements.
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REMOVING THE RIGHT TO SILENCE IN THE POLICE STATION by Stephen Odgers In December 2012, the New South Wales government introduced the Evidence Amendment (Evidence of Silence) Bill 2012 (NSW) into Parliament. Modelled on legislation in the United Kingdom, it significantly qualified the “right to silence” of a person accused of a criminal offence. The ...more