Sydney Law School: Recent submissions
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Section 53 of the Constitution: an overlooked reference to the constitutional people
Published 2013Section 53 of the Constitution sets out the limitations on the power of the Senate with respect to financial legislation. There is ongoing disagreement as to what legislation is caught by the section. This article does not ...Open AccessArticle -
Digital access to justice from prison: Is there a right to technology?
Published 2018While free world society has a burgeoning reliance on technological access to legal platforms for both civil and criminal procedure, prisoners have little capacity to engage with computers and are typically banned from ...Open AccessArticle -
Membership of the Voice
Published 2023The proposal for a First Nations Voice is to be put to the Australian electors at a referendum this year. This comment addresses the key issue of membership of the Voice.Open AccessArticle -
Victim legal representation, procedural change and adversarial criminal trial reform: Systemic support for sex offences victims and survivors in Victoria
Published 2023The Victorian Law Reform Commission's (VLRC) 2021 report, Improving the Justice System Response to Sexual Offences, makes several recommendations to transform the adversarial criminal trial by encouraging systemic change ...Open AccessArticle -
A critical analysis of the conduct and fault elements in 'revenge porn' criminalisation
Published 2019The non-consensual distribution of intimate images popularly known as “revenge porn” has been increasingly subject to criminalisation across a range of jurisdictions internationally. While it is accepted that there is a ...Open AccessArticle