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Is the parole system broken?

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In the wake of Adrian Bayley's murder of Jill Meagher while on parole, and Ian Callinan's subsequent review of Victoria's parole system, SBS Insight examines how authorities decide to release prisoners on parole and whether the system is working.

If you missed last night's program on parole you can watch it online here.

New Migrant Smuggling Case Database

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The Migrant Smuggling Case Database, launched by the UQ Migrant Smuggling Working Group in August 2013, provides immediate, public access to officially documented instances of this crime. The database contains details of the arrival of smuggled migrants in selected destination countries, embarkation and arrival points, passengers, crew, and organisers, charges laid, criminal proceedings and legal issues, verdicts and other information relating to reported cases of migrant smuggling. The database is based exclusively on open-source information, with extensive references to relevant case reports, court documents, government publications, and, where available, scholarly analysis.

See Migrant Smuggling Case Database

Celebrating the daily work of our local CLCs

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Community Law Australia is celebrating a "Day in the Life of a CLC". Go to Community Law Australia's Facebook page or use Twitter (#unlockthelaw) to learn more about the amazing work that happens in community legal centres around Australia.

See A Day in the Life…

Law Reform Inquiry into Digital Privacy

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Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has announced that the Australian Law Reform Commission will undertake a new inquiry into the protection of digital privacy. The inquiry will investigate existing privacy statutes and make recommendations on how the government can reduce the risk of serious invasions of privacy.

The Australian Law Reform Commission will report back to the Attorney-General before June 2014.

For further information, and to access the terms of reference, see Protecting privacy in the digital era (Media release, 12 June 2013).

Final Report: Inquiry into Sexting

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The Victorian Parliamentary Law Reform Committee has released its final report for the Inquiry into sexting.

The report contains 14 recommendations that the Committee believes will protect people from the harms caused by non-consensual sexting. The report also recognises that some sexting between young people should not be treated as child pornography, and recommends that new defences to child pornography offences be introduced to Victorian legislation.

See Report and Response.

How does copyright work in space?

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Commander Hadfield's rendition of David Bowie's Space Oddity is subject to terrestrial intellectual property regimes, the Economist explains....

http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2013/05/economist-explains-12

The agreement governing the ISS Space Station makes it clear (in Article 5) that the applicable laws, including those governing IP rights, depend on which part of it an astronaut is in.

Celebrating International Women's Day: March 1945 Queenslands First Female Juror

From the State Library of Queensland Blog

On 1 March 1945 Queensland's first female juror was empanelled at Brisbane's Supreme Court. Nellie Bishop, a housewife from Kelvin Grove who had never before been inside a courtroom, was thrust into the media spotlight. "I was scared stiff" she told a reporter from The Courier Mail

Newspaper articles about Nellie are available on Trove.

New Legal Research Guide!

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The Library has published a new Legal Research Guide for the start of Semester 1, 2013!

For those students who have never used our Legal Research Guide, this is where you can access:

  • Legal encyclopaedias and dictionaries
  • Australian and international case law
  • Legislation
  • Hansard and parliamentary documents
  • Key databases for legal information

You can access the Guide using the link below, or via the Walter Harrison Law Library homepage. Don't forget to bookmark it while you are there!

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Insight: Getting Away with Murder

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Did you miss this?

Insight: Getting Away with Murder SBS1 November 2012

Provocation defence: The Insight panel and audience members discuss whether the defence of provocation should remain in the Australian legal system and how to deal with often ambiguous cases of murder and manslaughter.

You can watch it on Informit TVNews, a database available from Library Databases.