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Tony Mokbel was sentenced to at least 22 years in jail in 2012 after pleading guilty to large-scale drug importation - but some argue he could get a new trial or even walk free given the latest revelations. Justine Smith/AAP

December 4, 2018

Victorian royal commission into policing needs to take a broad approach: here’s why

Darren Palmer, Deakin University

The royal commission will examine the conduct of a defence barrister who became an informant to the police - supplying information on her own clients that had been given to her in strict confidence.

The appointment of South Africa’s national prosecutions head Shaun Abrahams has been declared invalid. EPA/Nic Bothma

August 14, 2018

Constitutional Court strikes a blow for South Africa’s criminal justice system

Pierre de Vos, University of Cape Town

South Africa's Constitutional Court judgment shows concern that the independence of the country's prosecuting authority has been compromised.

South African Reserve Bank deputy governor and registrar of banks, Kuben Naidoo, has the tough task of curbing money laundering. Supplied by SARB

November 20, 2017

What South Africa’s Reserve Bank can – and can’t – do about illicit financial flows

Mills Soko, University of Cape Town

South Africa's Reserve Bank is facing a growing challenge of illicit financial flows and money laundering from gangs and errant businesses hell-bent on tricking regulators.

South Africa’s celebrated state prosecutor Gerrie Nel, known as ‘The Bull Dog’, is to lead the country’s first private prosecutions unit. Reuters/Marco Longari/Pool

February 3, 2017

Explainer: how South Africa’s first private prosecutions unit will work

Chantelle Feldhaus, North-West University and René Koraan, North-West University

Even though private prosecutions have been allowed in South African for almost 100 years, they are fairly rare and there has been only one known successful private prosecution.

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