Posts by Graeme Edgeler
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It is not to late to make your views known of the Government's proposal.
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Legal Beagle: Political opinion and the…, in reply to Rick Shera,
You did admit to an ulterior motive, Graeme, but, that is a beautifully constructed Trojan Horse
I don't think I've ever thought about what ulterior actually means!
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It’s not too late to have your say on the Government’s hate speech proposals, which you can do here. Public comment is being accepted until early August.
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Legal Beagle: Submission on the…, in reply to linger,
Thanks! The numbering in word is fine. It's the copy paste that didn't work!
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Wow, the copy paste from Word really mucked up the formatting :-)
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There's the bail act. It sets the test for bail.
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Legal Beagle: Compensation for…, in reply to Joe Edmonds,
It's a question of fact in each case. Someone imprisoned when they shouldn't be, has suffered more harm that someone detained at home, who has suffered more harm than someone with a curfew.
I don't have a fundamental problem with the possibility of a contributory negligence-like analysis, but fundamentally the Government runs the risk. If it ask for someone to be locked up, and then can't justify that in the end, I don't see why the person you locked up should wear the cost.
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If they are going to ban some prisoners from voting, maybe those serving 5 years, or with non-parole periods of three years?
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Legal Beagle: A draft submission on the…, in reply to Andrew Geddis,
Your headings “Arbitrariness in sentencing dates” and “Home detention” are mixed up.
Happily that, and the erstwhile error in the headline are artefacts of the copy paste process, and not errors in the submission itself.
I haven’t written anything yet. Can I join yours?
Yes.
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Legal Beagle: Why the censor's total ban…, in reply to Sacha,
given the woeful behaviour of editors and publishers in recent years, why trust them to judge what to do with material carefully crafted to incite violent hatred of a certain subsection of people?
The censor seems to, although he has also cautioned them to take care.
He's the expert, I'm happy to take him at his word.