by Paul Cutler | Aug 27, 2015 | Uncategorised
State obligations under international human rights treaties can be “derogated” if there are “exceptional circumstances of war or other public emergency”. This is often used as the justification for the introduction (including in Australia) of...
by Paul Cutler | Jul 23, 2015 | Uncategorised
Some of you may have read this story in the press recently. Victoria Police launched a Facebook campaign for information from the public in respect of an arrest warrant that was issued for Bendigo man, Daniel Damon after he failed to answer bail for drug and traffic...
by Paul Cutler | Jun 23, 2015 | Uncategorised
I was recently reading an article in the Australian Feminist Law Journal (who would have thought?) entitled “Telling a History of Australian Women Judges Through Courts’ Ceremonial Archives”. At a judicial swearing in, speeches are given to welcome...
by Paul Cutler | May 27, 2015 | Uncategorised
In Wollongong City Council v Dr Masood Falamaki [2010] NSWLEC 66, Dr Falamaki managed to convince Justice Craig that prior to delivery of a reserved judgment he should hear a submission, to be put on his behalf by “plenipotentiary judge David-Wynn Miller from...
by Paul Cutler | Apr 28, 2015 | Uncategorised
Many of the ideas that inspire posts on this blog are accidental discoveries made while looking for something else. This post falls into that category. I was recently briefed in an appeal from an AAT decision in relation to an erroneous customs classification of an...
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