Just Cases
The biggest court cases you've never heard of. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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CASE IN POINT tells the stories behind some of the most amazing court cases you need to know about.
Grave robbers, AI law enforcement, international diplomatic beefs! Aaaaah!
Each episode a specia...
Court cases:
- Williams v Commonwealth of Australia [2012] HCA 23 (20 June 2012) http://www6.austlii.edu.au/c...
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Court case:
Australian Communist Party v Commonwealth ("Communist Party case") [1951] HCA 5; (1951) 83 CLR 1 (9 March 1951)
Read judgment:
http://www8.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/HCA/1951/5.html
The pandemic has upended a lot of things we take for granted. Is it time we rethink how our society organises itself?
We’re bringing you some of the best court cases that have shaped society - and that could provide a way forward for the future.
There’s a big debate about religious freedom in Australia after the federal government announced plans to introduce new federal religious discrimination laws. Most of the coverage of the religious freedom debate focuses on protecting the major religions,...
Numerous inquiries have uncovered widespread discrimination and exclusion against children at government schools around Australia. While state-run education departments are tasked with the responsibility of fixing this pr...
The events of that evening are murky, but the resulting court case sent shockwaves through the community - and we still feel its effects today.
Melissa & James: "While we&apos...
Between 1999 to 2013, the SFO and a joint BBC/The Guardian investigation revealed that Rolls-Royce - which manufactures aircraft engines and defence systems, as well as their famed lu...
For over twenty years anti-abortion protesters have picketed abortion clinics around Australia. To combat this targeted harassment of women seeking safe and legal abortions, state governments have passed ‘safe access zone’ laws which create an exclusion zone around abortion clinics which protestors ca...
Australians traditionally sees themselves as pretty secular compared to the rest of the world. But how Australians choose to fund their children’s education paints a very different picture.
For every dollar the Federal Government spends per student in a priva...
We speak to the judge who decided this important case and learn what it’s like to make such life-changing decisions.
WARNING: This episode contains some difficult subject matter. ...
“It’s not a story of a corrupt guy, Jacob Zuma,” says Hennie van Vuuren, the director of Open Secrets, a South African organisation that investigates economic crimes and abuses of power.
“[Instead] it’s a story of a network of players around th...
Music: 'Alum Drum Solo' by Blue Dot Sessions
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Is the game over for the big end of town? Can the banks and financial sector finally be hit with some hardcore criminal law?
In the age of political fracturing worldwide, how far does your...
It's just before midnight on 10 July 1985. The Port of Auckland, New Zealand. The Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace anti-nuclear protest ship, is sitting at its dock when two massive explosions tear through its hull.
A man is killed onboard.
What follows is one of the most bizarre and sinister of diplomatic incidents.
The hunt for his killers uncovers an international network of spies, and exposes a highly-co...
A series of factory fires in Sydney in 1916 leads to a full-blown treason trial.
The case of the ‘IWW Twelve’ sees a dozen local members of a radical worldwide movement caught in a perfect political storm.
Storyteller: Dr Stephen Gray, Monash Law School
Hosts: Dr Melissa Castan & James Pattison
Further reading:
- ‘Death Cults, Murdering a Police Officer, and the First World War' by Dr Stephen Gray (Alternative ...
It’s the night of 2 August 1926. Five nautical miles off the coast of Lesbos. A French ship, the SS Lotus, is cruising towards its destination of Constantinople. The ship’s first officer is keeping watch, but he doesn’t know that there’s a Turkish ship dead ahead.
What lies ahead is not only a naval disaster, but a diplomatic dispute that throws a massive colonial power on a collision course with a young nation on the rise...
In 1886 a sensational banking scandal hit the headlines in Great Britain. It involved the world's richest man, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, the 3rd Marquess of Bute, and it led to an absurd decision.
More than a century later, the current Banking Royal Commission in Australia continues to expose stories of banks behaving badly.
But it remains rare for the people at the helm of banks and other major corporations -...
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