Today marks the 25th anniversary of Parliament House.

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Reporter Terri Begley talks with survivors and offenders of violent crime and their experiences with the Sycamore Tree Project - a form of therapy being trialled in Queensland prisons which focuses on restorative justice.

The Courier-Mail has published an interesting feature article on the workings of the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT). QCAT hears almost 30,000 cases each year.

Read the full article: Justice delivered by our 'super tribunal' (20 April 2013).

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.

The South China Morning Post has reported that the Honourable William Gummow, former Justice of the High Court of Australia, and the Honourable James Spigelman, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New South Wales, have been appointed to the Court of Final Appeal (Hong Kong).

See Top court gets new permanent judge (9 April 2013).

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 UK's highest court of appeal has ruled on cases ranging from prenups to Star Wars helmets and the definition of a miscarriage of justice (guardian.co.uk, 31 January 2012)

The UK supreme court: An interactive history

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.