Books & arts
25 November 2024
SBS’s The Jury: Death on the Staircase goes further than most courtroom experiments, and the results are all the more interesting
National affairs
15 November 2023
A High Court decision has added to concerns about jury behaviour that were passed over by a series of appeal judges
Books & arts
7 November 2023
A murder case looks different close-up for a journalist with worries of his own
Essays & reportage
16 June 2023
Thirty-five years and five judgements after Scott Johnson’s body was found, can we be sure justice has been served?
Essays & reportage
21 November 2022
What did we learn about juries from the abrupt conclusion to last month’s trial of a ministerial staffer?
National affairs
4 September 2022
Did The Teacher’s Pet hinder the conviction of Chris Dawson?
National affairs
10 September 2021
The justice system’s dealings with the police officer accused of killing Kumanjayi Walker are shadowed by cases past
Essays & reportage
7 June 2021
A new podcast brilliantly tracks Australia’s “biggest insider trading case.” But does it let the authorities off too lightly?
Essays & reportage
19 March 2021
There’s only one good way to resolve decades-old allegations like the ones made against the attorney-general
Essays & reportage
26 June 2020
The alleged actions of former justice Dyson Heydon sit oddly with his judgement in a contentious High Court appeal
From the archive
13 April 2020
If the High Court is right about the evidence on timing, what went wrong during the prosecution and hearings?
Essays & reportage
25 March 2020
How the communists saved Josh Frydenberg
Essays & reportage
7 March 2020
Will the High Court decide next week’s appeal on a broad legal issue or the case’s complex facts?
Essays & reportage
19 November 2019
This is not the first time the High Court has confronted a high-profile Victorian prosecution
Essays & reportage
29 August 2019
Did all three judges overstep the mark in deciding George Pell’s appeal?
National affairs
3 June 2019
This week’s Court of Appeal hearing won’t necessarily be the last word
National affairs
3 May 2019
Election 2019 | There’s plenty to keep curious voters — and the High Court — busy in the candidates’ disclosures about their ancestry
National affairs
26 April 2019
Election 2019 | Section 44 has already cast its baleful shadow over the federal poll
National affairs
19 March 2019
The Pell sentencing raises challenging questions about cases involving authority figures
National affairs
27 February 2019
In this case, above all, justice needed to be seen to be done
National affairs
10 December 2018
If judges don’t have a clear idea of how police should behave, where does that leave everyone else?
National affairs
26 November 2018
It’s had more than twenty-seven million downloads at last count, but what did The Teacher’s Pet really uncover?
National affairs
27 August 2018
We’ll never know whether people like Peter Dutton are eligible to sit in parliament unless the High Court hears his case
National affairs
11 May 2018
The High Court has set a new citizenship test for parliamentarians of uncertain status, but who on earth could pass it?
National affairs
1 May 2018
Are we all the losers in the High Court’s quest for consensus?
Books & arts
9 April 2018
The memoirs of one of Australia’s best-known judges raise important questions about sentencing, politics and the media
National affairs
12 February 2018
Thanks to section 44 (and resignations), the current Senate might be the least democratic in Australian history. But it can be fixed
National affairs
8 December 2017
Parliament’s citizenship register is packed with declarations. Not all of them are terribly illuminating, but that’s not necessarily the fault of the MPs
National affairs
19 November 2017
The process for replacing senators means we could be in for a long series of High Court hearings. Will the 2016 election never end?
National affairs
13 November 2017
The dual citizenship story is far from over — and perhaps it was Barnaby Joyce who hit the nail on the head