No, the blog isn’t back. But I thought it was worth easing my resolve a touch to mark an event that is an antidote, for now, to so much that bothered me last year: a genuinely great Charter deci… more →
CharterblogJeremy Gans wrote 2 months ago: No, the blog isn’t back. But I thought it was worth easing my resolve a touch to mark an event … more →
Jeremy Gans wrote 11 months ago: [EDIT: Here, at last, the post VCAT suppressed, originally written over a month ago. Who knows why t … more →
Jeremy Gans wrote 11 months ago: To date, I’ve covered 47 cases that mentioned the Charter in 2008. There’s another two t … more →
Jeremy Gans wrote 11 months ago: One of the flurry of Charter passing mentions this week is R v Dickson [2008] VSCA 271, an appeal by … more →
Jeremy Gans wrote 1 year ago: Two days ago, in Salduz v Turkey [2008] ECHR 1542, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human … more →
Jeremy Gans wrote 1 year ago: After midday on 22nd February 2006, four or so months before the Charter was enacted, Peter Kokkios … more →
Jeremy Gans wrote 1 year ago: October 31st is the date I pronounced the biggest Charter day EVER, given the thrilling combination … more →
Jeremy Gans wrote 1 year ago: The Age today caught Melbournians up with a crime mystery that’s been circulating for a year n … more →
Jeremy Gans wrote 1 year ago: I happened to be in the legal precinct today and dropped by to listen in at the sex offenders’ … more →
Jeremy Gans wrote 1 year ago: Further to this previous post, I’ve belatedly noticed that the Charter issue relating to the c … more →
Jeremy Gans wrote 1 year ago: My guess last post was right. (Of course, presumably the whole legal community knew this, but not me … more →
Jeremy Gans wrote 1 year ago: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume … more →
Jeremy Gans wrote 1 year ago: Last Friday’s Stateline brought some major Charter news: As part of its election commitment, t … more →
Jeremy Gans wrote 1 year ago: It is commonplace for jurors in Australian criminal trials to ask the trial judge to define ‘r … more →
Jeremy Gans wrote 1 year ago: The Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee’s 13th Alert Digest for the year (considering a … more →
Jeremy Gans wrote 1 year ago: Re Kent [2008] VSC 431 is the first Supreme Court Charter bail case since Kelly Gray became the firs … more →
Jeremy Gans wrote 1 year ago: I’m absolutely thrilled at today’s verdict in the trial of Joseph ‘Jihad Jack … more →
Jeremy Gans wrote 1 year ago: One of the interesting bits of human rights law that is implicit in Part 2 of the Charter is the law … more →
Jeremy Gans wrote 1 year ago: A new (non-)Charter case, Devine & Legg v VCAT [2008] VSC 410, is the Supreme Court’s seco … more →