PUBLICATION IS A TRICKY BUSINESS MEM BE RS’ CO NTRI BUT I ON
by Life Member Louis A Coutts
A woman was intercepted in Liverpool in 1996 by the Police who discovered a spray irritant in her handbag. It was an offence to carry a spray irritant unless the person had a reasonable excuse. The woman had previously been attacked by a man and the day after the attack she purchased the cannister and always carried it with her. A majority of the Judges on the High Court decided that the woman did not have a reasonable excuse and confirmed her conviction and ordered her to pay costs.
the Club didn’t owe the woman a duty of care and rejected her claim. A son killed his father and he and his mother were charged with murder. The son was acquitted on the grounds of self-defence, but the Jury convicted the mother of murder. Despite the fact that her husband was not murdered, a majority of the Judges of the High Court upheld her conviction of murder and sent her to the clink for twelve years.
A refugee who unsuccessfully applied for an Australian visa then sought to be deported to another country, but no one would take him. According to the Immigration Act he had to remain in detention for the rest of his life. A majority of the Judges of the High Court said that his detention didn’t amount to imprisonment and so it was OK for a bureaucrat in the Immigration Department to A Rugby Club in Sydney served a woman grog lock him up for the rest of his life. until she was blind drunk and then kicked her out. The Federal Court made a decision that affected all She was run over by a car and seriously injured. the States of Australia who collectively sent twentyA majority of Judges of the High Court said that one high priced Barristers to Canberra to argue an Two girls had been sexually assaulted in the classroom of a one teacher school in Queensland. A majority of the Judges on the High Court rejected her claim against the Queensland education department because the teacher had acted criminally and, according to the majority of the High Court, he was not employed to act criminally.
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