Monday, July 06, 2015

Messing with LCN DNA

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The delights of Bayesian probability reasoning are sufficient to draw from me another case comment! Our Court of Appeal, in Manoharan v...
Saturday, July 04, 2015

Search seminar

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Notes for the talk on the law of search that I gave at the Auckland District Court on 1 July 2015 are available  here.
Sunday, May 31, 2015

Proportionality and the Rule of Law

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As you know – although I’m sure you wouldn’t admit it in front of your drinking buddies – there are few more enjoyable ways of spending a w...
Saturday, May 09, 2015

I doubt, therefore I am, but what are you?

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In Seeing Things as They Are (OUP, 2015) John R Searle gives idealism a long-deserved slap. “There is something tragic about the massive w...
Friday, April 17, 2015

Book review: Final Judgment – The Last Law Lords and the Supreme Court by Alan Paterson (2013)

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Every barrister should read this book. Even if you don’t particularly care about the goings-on in the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, ...
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...