Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Book Review: The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time, by Unger and Smolin

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The Singular Universe and the Reality of Time by Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin, CUP, 2015 brings to our attention a likely expla...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Book review: The Sense of Style - The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, by Steven Pinker

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I enjoyed most of Steven Pinker’s, The Sense of Style – The Thinking Person’s Guide to Writing in the 21 st Century . My computer puts...
Monday, November 03, 2014

Book review: Lord Mansfield - Justice in the Age of Reason by Norman S Poser

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If you are not yet in love with eighteenth century London, Lord Mansfield – Justice in the Age of Reason by Norman S Poser will get you st...
Friday, October 03, 2014

Book Review: Peter Gill, "Misleading DNA Evidence: Reasons for Miscarriages of Justice"

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Every criminal lawyer needs to read Peter Gill’s “Misleading DNA Evidence: Reasons for Miscarriages of Justice” (Academic Press, 2014). ...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

Wrapping up

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And that was ten years of commentary. Just a consequence of having the radio on while working at my desk on 25 August 2004, and hearing a c...
Saturday, August 16, 2014

A defendant's liability for Parliament's mistake

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A couple of statutory interpretation questions were answered in Beezadhur v The Independent Commission against Corruption & Anor (Maur...
Thursday, August 14, 2014

More on expert evidence

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Two decisions of the High Court of Australia yesterday don’t develop the law but they do illustrate how careful everyone should be about ex...
Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Photos from abroad

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In taking photographs of a girl performing oral sex on another man, the defendant did an act “with or on” the girl so as to commit an offen...
Monday, August 04, 2014

The embarrassing c.v.

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This month marks the 10 th anniversary of the start of this site. I try to be modest but the facts make that unconvincing. My normally fet...
Monday, July 21, 2014

When is fairness intolerable?

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The right to legal advice was central to R v Taylor , 2014 SCC 50 (18 July 2014). The defendant had requested legal advice but this reques...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Noted in passing ...

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Three recent decisions: Of narrow interest is R v Quesnelle , 2014 SCC 46 (9 July 2014) on when a defendant can have copies of reports...
Thursday, July 10, 2014

Unnecessary gender pronouns in legal writing

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One of the advantages of writing is that an author has more time to think about how to put into words a thought that a speaker may only clu...