I recently wrote a blog about a recent decision of the Full Court of the Family Court, in which one of the issues for determination was the Taxation Commissioner’s access to the parties’ family law pleading statements. The decision is reported as Commissioner of...
I wrote a blog previously about the recent High Court hearing in Honeysett’s case, a case concerning circumstantial identification and expert opinion evidence. Judgement has now been delivered and the High Court has ordered: Appeal allowed. Mr Honeysett’s conviction...
Deborah Cornwall published on ABC online an article headed “Stressful marriage more likely to kill men, study finds”. A Danish study of 10,000 men and women aged between 36 and 52; conducted over 10 years, has concluded that an unhappy marriage can triple the...
Nicola Berkovic writing in The Australian newspaper reports “De facto couples have differences to married counterparts, judge says.” This article refers to the recent decision of BENEDICT & PEAKE [2014] FCCA 642 from the Federal Circuit Court at Parramatta,...
This is the question that lies at the heart of the appeal to the High Court of Australia in Honeysett v The Queen. On 12 June 2014 I attended the High Court to observe the hearing. There were five justices sitting on the bench: Justices’ Gageler; Kiefel; Bell; Keane;...
Having watched Rosie Batty’s inspiring challenge to Jo Hildebrand after his comments that “to say that you’re going to not report a case of child abuse or child sex abuse by your partner because you are scared for your own safety, I’m sorry...
