PUBLICATION – LEGISLATIVE ENCROACHMENT ON JUDICIAL DISCRETION IN QUEENSLAND

LEGISLATIVE ENCROACHMENT ON JUDICIAL DISCRETION IN QUEENSLAND Researched and authored by Evelyn Hoare and Nathan Lindsay August 2014 Publication here

PUBLICATION – JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS IN QLD

JUDICIAL APPOINTMENTS IN QUEENSLAND: OPTIONS FOR REFORM Researched  and authored by Joshua Sproule and Amina Karcic August 2014 Publication here

MEDIA—Do You Have a Right to Anything?

On 2 July 2014,Peter Callaghan SC, President of LJIQ, discussed civil liberties and Constitutional rights with 612 ABC Afternoons presenter Kelly Higgins-Devine and other guests, Michael Cope, President of the Qld Council for Civil Liberties and Professor Anne Twomey, Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney.

Criticism of Attorney-General’s breach of confidence mounts

Law & Justice Institute (Qld) Inc. member Professor Heather Douglas recently appeared on the ABC’s 7.30 Report, alongside  former Queensland Supreme Court judge, George Fryberg, and former Queensland Solicitor-General, Walter Sofronoff QC, to discuss Attorney-General Bleijie’s disclosure of a private conversation with Queensland Court of Appeal President, Margaret McMurdo AC. The interview is available to view here.

OPINION – Judicial Independence in Queensland

The following is an opinion piece by Peter Callaghan SC. It is available electronically and below. OPINION The LJI endorses the observation (reported to have been made by the Chief Magistrate Judge Tim Carmody) that judicial independence is a two way street. Judicial officers must be completely independent of the executive and the parliament, but […]

Criminal Law (Criminal Organisations Disruption) and other Legislation Amendment Bill

Please see attached to this post our letter to Mr Ian Berry MP the Chair of the Legal Affairs and Community Safety Committee in relation to the new Criminal Organisation amendment bill. We have urged the committee to request an extension of time within which to consider the Bill which comes before Parliament againt this […]

OPINION – Campbell Newman taking lessons from Vladimir Putin

In the Brisbane Times on 21 November 2013, Peter Callaghan SC published the following opinion piece. The article is available online here and electronically here. Campbell Newman, like Vladimir Putin, has forgotten there is more to  democracy than winning elections, says Peter Callaghan SC. OPINION There is actually more to democracy than winning elections. We know […]