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Female suicide rate in Northern Ireland is high, and ambivalence about legalising abortion is likely to make matters worse.
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The tennis star claims his role as a sports attaché for the Central African Republic means he doesn’t have to repay his debts. Is he right?
Increased logging in NSW could affect threatened species.
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More logging will occur in NSW if conservation areas are rezoned by the state government.
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Victims could be entitled to redress – but it won’t be easy.
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Cryonics is no longer synonymous with science fiction. What are we technically capable of doing and what do we have the right to do?
The courts are, or can be, theatres of remorse.
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In many legal jurisdictions of the world, including Australia, an offender’s remorse is a mitigating factor at sentencing. And yet how judges evaluate such expressions is unclear.
A mural of Savita Halappanavar, who died from pregnancy complications after being refused an abortion.
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The end of the 8th amendment is on the horizon.
David Goodall a day before his assisted death in Switzerland.
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David Goodall had a good life and he wanted a good death, even though he wasn’t terminally ill. An end-of-life expert explains why he should have this right.
Carolyn Flanagan gave evidence at the third round of hearings of the banking royal commission.
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Evidence in front of the banking royal commission today is very similar to the case that sparked consumer protection laws more than 30 years ago.
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The almost total ban on abortion in Ireland does not work to protect women’s health.
Required reading.
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Consumer law requires legal agreements to be transparent – so how does this apply to complicated terms and conditions we’re expected to read?
Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) chairman James Shipton has come under fire for inaction on bad bank behaviour.
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Even when ASIC has been sufficiently resourced to pursue litigation, the Australian courts have contributed to an environment where contravening behaviour is a rewarding option.
Angry customers want bankers to face jail time, but better banking practices are just as important.
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It seems ASIC and the Director of Public Prosecutions will have no lack of evidence to pursue civil penalties and criminal cases. The bigger issue is what charges to go with.
Financial firms often program computers to contract with other parties in security trades.
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Law presumes that commercial contracts are intended to be legally binding, even where computers play a part in the bargain.
Australian governments have too often succumbed to perceived community pressure to limit parole authorities’ independence and powers.
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Government and judicial interventions into the decisions of parole boards display a progressive loss of faith in these independent bodies.
Debbie Baptiste, the mother of Colten Boushie, enters the Court of Queen’s Bench as the jury is in deliberation in the trial of Gerald Stanley, the farmer accused of killing her 22-year-old son, in Battleford, Sask., Friday, February 9, 2018.
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Racial bias likely played a role in the Gerald Stanley case. This article explains how racial dynamics and process failures enabled systemic racism to play a part in Stanley’s acquittal.
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A history of how jurors have faced trial themselves for getting it wrong, or slipping up in court.
Gerald Stanley enters the courthouse in Battleford, Sask., in February 2018 during his trial in the death of Colten Boushie, an Indigenous man. The use by Stanley’s defence team of peremptory challenges produced an all-white jury in his trial.
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The Canadian government’s criminal justice bill would abolish what are known as peremptory challenges. Here’s why that’s long overdue.
An artist’s impression of Tiangong-1 in orbit.
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China’s space station Tiangong-1 is about to crash back to Earth any day now. It’s out of control too so no one really knows where it will land. So what if it hits you or your house?
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Healthcare professionals should have their freedom of conscience protected by law.