The Standing Committee on Law and Justice is investigating the impact of social media on the right to a fair trial and has recently engaged the Centre for Law, Governance and Public Policy to review existing research and policies.

The full report is available here.

It has been covered in today's Sydney Morning Herald and on the Conversation.

According to a Brisbane Times article, the Queensland Government will cease funding the Tenant Advisory and Advocacy Services at the end of this financial year. The service is designed to help Queenslanders access free legal information and advocacy services for residential tenancy matters.

The Government has recently recommended a number of changes in how legal services are funded in Queensland. To access the full report and recommendations see, Review of the allocation of funds from the Legal Practitioner Interest on Trust Accounts Fund.

For futher information see Tenants group faces eviction (Brisbane Times, 12 April 2013)

We have tended to greet changes in the criminal justice system with considerable sceptical trepidation.

But I have little doubt that as the years, or maybe the decades, roll on, we in Queensland will be urged to embrace reforms that have been in operation, effectively, in that great basin of legal tradition, Britain, for a decade or more.

Queensland's Chief Justice Paul de Jersey in an address to the Queensland Law Society Symposium calls for the consideration of legal reform in a number of areas such as allowing: an accused's previous convictions to be admitted as evidence, and judges to explain to juries what is meant by the term "reasonable doubt".

An edited extract of his address is available here (via Factiva).

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