Courts

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Politics & Society

Ensuring justice is done and seen to be done

To better promote public confidence, research suggests courts need to reassess the test they use for determining whether a judicial officer could be biased

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Environment

Can the courts save us from climate change?

Governments around the world are being taken to court for inaction on climate change – but can litigation help fill the policy gap?

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Health & Medicine

Judicial stress falls heaviest on magistrates

Following up evidence of distress and burnout in the judiciary, research finds that stress affects magistrates the most, exacerbated by social isolation and a lack of autonomy

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Health & Medicine

Wellbeing survey of Australia’s judiciary reveals risk of distress and burnout

The first survey into the wellbeing of judges and magistrates reveals a judiciary coping well with high stress work, but many show signs of distress and risk of burnout

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Politics & Society

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Book extract

Trial by Ouija Board: When jurors misbehave

In his new book, Professor Jeremy Gans explores a famous case of juror misconduct from the 1990s, and its ongoing implications for the trial-by-jury system

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Politics & Society

Judge, jury and Google

How digitally-connected jurors are creating new challenges for the courts as they play amateur detective

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Politics & Society

Research helps wipe the slate clean

A pilot program the subject of MLS research, which sees financial counsellors embedded in the court to give immediate advice to those facing bankruptcy, is providing many with a fresh start

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Politics & Society

Coalface tactics

Conservation and environmental groups are using the courts to fight and frustrate the mining industry in an act the Government calls ‘lawfare’

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