I haven’t heard of an academic yet who is sad about the end of the ERA journal rankings, announced yesterday by Minster Kim Carr. Carr said in his press release: There is clear and consistent evidence that the [ERA journal] rankings were being deployed inappropriately within some quarters of the sector, in ways that could [...]
Celebrity squares are: Top left: Jacquie Smith MP (Lab) – former Home Secretary who claimed her husband’s pay-per-view porn on expenses. [no action] Top right: David Laws MP (LibDem) – almost coalition Home Secretary until he admitted claiming for rent paid to his undeclared male partner. [suspended from Parliament for a week, under police investigation] [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Britain, Funnies, Law, Politics, Public Policy, Society, Welfare
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Tagged benefit fraud, crime, david chaytor, david laws, Department for Work and Pensions, disability, DWP, elliot morley, false accounting, fraud, jacquie smith, jim devine, lord hanningfield, lord taylor of warwick, MPs expenses, right dishonourable members, UK coa, UK conservative party, UK labour party, UK liberal democrats
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In The Age today, it has been reported that the Victorian government is considering mandatory sentencing for young offenders of violent crime: The Baillieu government plans to introduce mandatory minimum jail terms for youths aged 16 and 17 convicted of violent offences, despite concern among the legal profession. Attorney-General Robert Clark has asked the Sentencing [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Human/Civil rights, Law, Media, Personal liberty, Public Policy, Society
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Tagged aims of criminal law, Baillieu government, criminal law, gaol, incarceration, jail, judicial discretion, mandatory sentencing, mercy, punishment, punitive, victims of crime, Victoria, violent offenders, young offenders
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In light of the SNP’s election win on May 5, this should come as no surprise: The Scottish cabinet is taking action to stop the UK Supreme Court in London getting involved in criminal cases north of the border. SNP ministers said the independence of Scotland’s legal system must be defended in the wake of several [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Posted in Britain, Feminism, Human/Civil rights, Law, scotland
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Tagged 'Queen of Proofs', adversarial method, Alex Salmond, Article 6, Cadder, confession, criminal procedure, delict, ECHR, evidence, Fraser, inquisitorial method, provocation, right to silence, Romano-Canonical procedure, Scots law, sexual harassment, SNP
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It’s wrong, of course, in almost every particular, but my this man could write.
In the interests of fair reporting (and because religious nutters give me the screaming heaves), here is this joyful little story from the BBC. Australia must be really pleased about the religious composition of its immigrant population right now. I believe it’s known in the trade as ‘dodging a bullet’. Four Muslim men who assaulted [...]
There is a part of me that thinks picking on these guys is like picking on homeless people, or taunting the slow kid in the playground. When you indulge, it says more about you than it does about the people you’re picking on, and what it says isn’t pretty. When I was a kid, I [...]
Have you ever made a good cocktail by accident? You know, where you combine various ingredients — including quite a few that don’t seem to go together — and yet finish up with something awesome? Yeah, doesn’t happen often, does it? Or it only tastes good when you’re drunk. Taste the mix again later — [...]
By skepticlawyer
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Posted in Academia, Economics, Law, Philosophy, Politics
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Tagged Bob Carr, Carl Schmitt, Chantal Mouffe, civil law, cocktail mixing, consensus ad idem, consumer protection, contract law, David Hume, David Mamet, delict, Derry v Peek, Donoghue v Stevenson, error, F. A. Hayek, false consciousness, George Akerlof, Hedley Byrne v Heller, Heidegger, Hillsborough cases, inherent value, Karl Marx, Labour theory of value, lenin, Mark Bahnisch, mistake, mutually beneficial exchange, Neil MacCormick, praetorian edict, Roman law, Sale of Goods Act, slavery, terry eagleton, The Market for Lemons, Thoughtlines, tort, Ulpian, virtue ethics, Weimar Republic
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The former spiritual mentor to Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has publicly accused his protégé of being “under a spell” as a constitutional crisis engulfs the country. The president has taken the unprecedented step of refusing to obey orders handed down by the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, less than two years after the pair formed [...]
By DeusExMacintosh
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Posted in Defence, Funnies, Middle east, Politics, Religion
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Tagged afghanistan, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Ayatollah Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, Defence, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, Hamid Karzai, Iran, islam, Israel, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, nuclear disarmament, nuclear weapons
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It was reported in The Australian today that a women has won the right to possession of her dead husband’s sperm with a view to using the material to conceive a child via IVF. The full judgment is available here: Jocelyn Edwards; Re the estate of the late Mark Edwards [2011] NSWSC 478. The facts [...]
By Legal Eagle
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Posted in Children, Law, Marriage, Motherhood, Parenthood, Society, Technology
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Tagged Assisted Reproductive Technology Act, bodily property rights, Children, death, gametes, IVF, Jocelyn Edwards, Mark Edwards, parenthood, possession, property law, property rights, reproductive technology
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