Hard to disagree in this case. Reasonable force?

NSWSC today upheld a (civil) claim of malicious prosecution: "there was no reasonable or probable cause to institute or maintain the criminal prosecution" Spedding v NSW [2022] NSWSC 1627 caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/184bc… 1/3

‘Proud of my community’: youth crime drops dramatically in Groote Eylandt theguardian.com/australia-news…

What do we think about this?

Year 12 - UNDRIP Year 11 - native title.

NSW police criticised for ‘outrageous’ midnight arrest of student who protested at RBA theguardian.com/australia-news…

YEAR 12 Hunan Rights. I’m sure this will end well… Queensland to override state’s Human Rights Act in bid to make breach of bail an offence for children theguardian.com/australia-news…

We will talk about this on Monday. The media’s role in the legal system. Commercial interests, which often benefit by misleading and emotive reporting balanced against reporting what is newsworthy. Similar tension for our legislators.

The mountain of secrecy and non-disclosure provisions in Commonwealth laws ... ag.gov.au/sites/default/…

Year 11 - how does this reyflect society? Year 12 - Crime young offenders, Human Rights.

This is a fantastic piece of writing on the role of the media in a healthy democracy. I really really hope you engage with it, it will give you the language to talk with nuance about the media and all aspects of the legal system, of which the legislature is a part.

Interesting article on tech and stalking/dev. Backs up what we were talking about today year 11

Here you go kids. We will unpack this when we do Global Environmental protections.

Far out man. Year 12 world order. We can talk about this tomorrow.

instagram.com/p/CtI0SFpPIR8/…

This is genuinely horrifying. World order.

We will talk about the COPS tomorrow.

Crime sentencing and punishment.

Year 11 media as agent of law reform. Year 12 crime. DV presents issues for our CJS as it is currently set up and perhaps a radical approach is needed. Compare reaction to this to the reaction to R v Loveridge.

Hello students. The HSC is very hard. When it gets really bad remember this video and that this was once very nearly our PM, and that this idea got through ALL OF HIS STAFF, and how it proves anything is possible and anyone can achieve all the success they can imagine.