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UNSW academics to study jury deliberation
UNSW academics Professor Jill Hunter and Professor Richard Kemp have received a $640k Australian Research Council Discovery Projects grant to study jury deliberation, Victorian government announces anti-vilification laws (Justice Legislation Amendment (Anti-vilification and Social Cohesion) Bill 2024)
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UNSW academics Professor Jill Hunter and Professor Richard Kemp receive $640k ARC grant to study jury deliberation (here is a link to details of latest ARC Discovery Projects grants)
“Inside the jury: A novel experimental technique to study jury deliberation. Despite decades of psychology research, we know almost nothing about what happens inside the jury room. Jury decision making is an inherently collaborative process in which groups discuss the evidence while trying to achieve a verdict. However most jury research has ignored the deliberation process, only studying the decisions of individual participants. This failure to adequately model deliberation has profound implications for justice. This project will use a novel method to allow experimental investigation of aspects of the deliberation process to address important questions such as whether juries are self-correcting and whether they can follow judicial instructions. Results will inform policy and legal procedure around the world.”
How should the justice system respond when a judge commits a crime? - ABC Law Report - Apple Podcasts
Tasmanian Supreme Court Justice Gregory Geason has resigned after he was convicted and sentenced for assault and emotional abuse or intimidation. The Law Report examines the broader question of how Australian jurisdictions balance judicial independence with accountability.
Government legal spending hits $600m [AFR paywall]
Commonwealth spending on legal fees increased rapidly before an overhaul of the government panel, but barristers’ bills were trimmed.
How (Not) to Litigate. End of Year Event - 10 December 2024 - Copyright Society of Australia
Does using “direct speech” in evidence offend Sensibilities? Does Pride in one’s work mean that the Court wants to read all one’s letters? Is their tone Prejudicial? Does your technical evidence make Sense to the judge?
These and other questions about litigation as the art of Persuasion will be discussed – in a suitably seasonal spirit and accompanied by anecdotes, war stories, self-deprecating confessions, truths universally acknowledged, and even more literary allusions – by panellists Richard Cobden SC, Neil Murray SC and Megan Evetts, under the firm guiding hand of the Hon Dr Annabelle Bennett AC SC, at the CSA’s End of Year event – How (Not) to Litigate."
In this episode of Just Cause, LLB II student, Reeyaa Agrawal, and final year LLB V student, Sarah, are joined by Professor Fleur Johns, the incoming Dean of Sydney Law School, to explore the intersections of law and social justice. Fleur shares her journey from corporate law to academia, discussing the role of pro-bono work in corporate practice and how social justice can be integrated into legal careers. We also delve into her research on international law and technology, and data governance and its influence on global power dynamics and social justice movements reflecting on her work on Guantanamo Bay.
2024 Annual Kirby Lecture in International Law: Claiming Queer Liberty - James C. Hathaway - Youtube
“The Terrorism (Community Protection) and Control of Weapons Amendment Bill 2024 will allow police to search and seize weapons without a warrant with less notice and for longer periods of time.”: premier.vic.gov.au/getting-knives…
— Jeremy Gans (@jeremy_gans)
7:46 PM • Nov 25, 2024
"The bare fact of Gobbo’s registration as a police informer ... does not raise the possibility that an ordinary fair-minded citizen in the position of the applicant would entertain a reasonable suspicion that justice might have miscarried because of misconduct by Gobbo".
— Australian Criminal Law (@CriminalLawAus)
2:06 AM • Nov 26, 2024
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