“In the age of the internet, stories that once would have been wrapping the fish and chips and forgotten a few weeks or months or years later
are preserved forever,” says former High Court justice Michael Kirby in this speech for Privacy Victoria.
Michael Kirby
PODCAST: Michael Kirby: Why privacy matters
Questions for the legal system following Gassy case
Something is surely amiss when a defendant, whom many experts believe to have a serious psychiatric disorder, is allowed to appear and represent himself before the country’s highest court.
Animal law courses on the rise
Just a few years ago, there were virtually no speciality courses in animal law being taught in Australian Universities; now they’re on the rise, writes Andrew Bartlett.
An infuriated Justice Kirby’s last day in court
Is it any wonder that Michael Kirby should excoriate the conservatism of his colleagues as he did yesterday in the NT Intervention case? Asks Greg Barns.
Sydney Anglicans intolerant in a tolerant church
The extraordinary attack on Justice Michael Kirby is a reflection of just how great the “divide” between Sydney and other Anglican dioceses has become, writes Jeff Wall.
People of the year: according to the Crikey commentariat
Former Canberra Cabbie Joe Janiak, NSW Coroner Jacqueline Milledge, Ian Callinan QC AC, Jessica Rowe, Terry Hicks, Howard’s Hos, and the great man himself, just some of the Crikey commentariat’s People of the Year.
Errington: High Court appointments hanging on election result
One of the most important tasks of the winner of the 2007 election will be to appoint at least two High Court judges during the next parliamentary term, writes Wayne Errington.
