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
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’