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Foetal Murder: The Antiquated ‘Born Alive’ Rule
One of the most profound absurdities in modern-day Australian criminal law is the complete lack of substantive rights afforded to a foetus. According to Sir Edward Coke’s 1797 definition of murder, a...
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Workplace Bullying: The Impact of Brodie’s Law on Employers
Brodie Panlock was a 19 year old waitress who tragically ended her life after being subjected to ‘persistent and vicious’ workplace bullying at café Vamp in Hawthorn, Victoria.[1] A coronial inquest...
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‘Get a Fire in Your Belly’ for Indigenous Rights!
‘Get a fire in your belly’ was Jill Prior’s powerful message from the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service when she recently provided a moving presentation at the Progressive Law Network’s Legal...
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Same-Sex Marriage in Australia: Boarding the Train of Equality
The luxury of having an online information highway available at our fingertips means that Gen Y has the ability to cross-reference any asserted fact without having to take one’s word as gospel. Unlike...
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The Student Experience in Community Legal Centres
In my penultimate year at law school I decided not to apply for a clerkship and instead enrolled myself into the summer clinical unit of Professional Practice at the Springvale Monash Legal Service. As...
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Eddie-torial: Freedom of Religion and Equal Opportunity Law in Victoria
Freedom of religion and a fair chance in the workplace are two issues Australians hold dear as fundamental values. In recent times these very values have been attacked by the Baillieu-Clark amendments...
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The Toxicity of Juvenile Imprisonment: Mandatory Sentencing in Victoria
It’s been five years since I completed work experience as a Youth Worker at the Juvenile Justice Centre, supervising male offenders between the ages of 15-20 in the Youth Training facility. Being...
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Eddie-torial: Why the High Court sunk the ‘Malaysia Solution’ in Plaintiff...
Like many Australians over the course of the last few years I have become increasingly dismayed at the methods used to process refugee claims. As someone who initially supported the idea of offshore...
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Trial by ‘Doctored’ Peers: Preventing Prosecutorial Jury Stacking
Since reading Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird in high school, I’ve always been fascinated by the jury system. The fictional champion Atticus Finch taught me at a very early age that ‘a court is...
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Failing to ‘Acknowledge Country’: The Scarcity of Respect
I think we students generally don’t provide enough praise to our educators who are charged with the onerous duty of pulling the cord to the parachute of our minds. Throughout my seven-year tertiary...
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