UNSW Justice Talks (ADVERTISEMENT)
Tue Oct 08 2013The next address in the UNSW Law Justice Talks series will be held on Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 6.00pm. Titled "Criminal Justice and Criminal Law: A pig in a poke?" it will be delivered by former DPP, Nicholas Cowdery QC, at the Tyree Room, John Niland Scientia Building, UNSW Kensington Campus. Register here.
The criminal law creates crimes and the procedures for formally dealing with them, recognising and seeking to protect individual rights. We expect it to enable justice to be done between an offender and the community. But the laws are made by parliaments and interpreted and applied by the courts; so whose justice is done - and does the law sometimes stand in its way? And if it does, what can we do about it? A lawyer reflects on 45 years.
8 October 2013