New laws ending the ‘right to silence’ when being questioned by police run the risk of causing the miscarriage of justice, the state’s former top prosecutor Nicholas Cowdery QC has told a UNSW public lecture.
Is ‘retributive justice’ an effective form of punishment or just an excuse for vengeance? And what are the social costs? Australia's first Indigenous magistrate Pat O'Shane delivers UNSW Law's Justice Talks Lecture.
Former Federal Court judge Margaret Stone will discuss the tensions between procedural and substantial justice in the third Justice Talks lecture for 2013
UNSW Law’s flagship public lecture series Justice Talks kicks off for the year on 27 March with a wide-ranging talk by Justice of the NSW Court of Appeal Ronald Sackville.
