barnold law
03 October 2009
Phantom POWs?
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I've been working on a law journal article regarding what US commentators have characterised as ' stolen honour ', ie people who...
02 October 2009
Public faces in eastern places
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I'm reading Marc Nichanian's The Historiographic Perversion (Columbia Uni Press, 2009) on responses to the Armenian Genocide after ...
30 September 2009
iMandy2.0
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Mandy Rice-Davies, an actor in the 1963 Profumo Affair, famously responded to a barrister's statement that Lord Astor denied having an a...
Fake kids and early demises
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The BBC reports the arrest of Colombian conman Juan Carlos Guzman-Betancourt, who first attracted attention in 1993 when he claimed to be a...
29 September 2009
Thwock
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After a day discussing Doodeward v Spence [1908] HCA 45 ; (1908) 6 CLR 406, R v Dudley and Stephens [1884] 14 QBD 273 DC and Cattanach v ...
28 September 2009
Show and Tell
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Paul Kelly, in The March of Patriots: The Struggle For Modern Australia (Carlton: Melbourne Uni Press 2009), notes the dilemma facing liber...
Kids, Crime & Justice
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The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has released a 135 page report [ PDF ] on Juveniles' contact with the criminal justice sys...
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