Spotlight
- Spotlight
How do perpetrators use control as a form of domestic abuse? QLS Legal Policy Solicitor Natalie De Campo discusses the techniques coercive controllers use to seize power. Adapted from Jess Hill's powerful book, See What You Made Me Do.
- Outside the law, Spotlight
Some years ago I found myself on a panel reviewing applications from law students for summer clerkship positions in a law firm. As we worked through the amazing applications from outstanding students, I began to seriously question my credentials for the role.
, Fiona Yeang
- Outside the law, Spotlight
Oliver Collins was a lawyer, writer, advocate, friend and fashion icon and role model, who sadly passed away last week after a fall from his wheelchair.
, Sheetal Deo
- Spotlight
A new service now available in Australia prepares witnesses for the rigours of giving evidence in court.
, John Teerds
- Perspectives, Spotlight
It's been just over a year since the first informal meeting of the QLS Diverse Abilities Network... and what a year it has been!
, Michael Bidwell
- Spotlight
A look at the funding for youth justice reforms.
, Tony Keim
- Spotlight
Youth justice advocates are united in their desire for early intervention.
, Tony Keim
- Spotlight
Hundreds of caged children as young as 10, sharing prison-style common areas with pedophiles, locked up for weeks in solitary confinement and wanting nothing more than to speak to their mothers.
, Tony Keim
- Spotlight
What has been achieved to help rectify the problem of dozens of children held in dangerous adult police watch houses?
, Tony Keim
- Spotlight
Matt Dunn spoke with Jake Gardiner, the Legal Manager of Queensland law firm Claimify about being Australia’s first online personal injury claim platform and the process of developing a new online legal business model.
- Spotlight
Nearly one year into the Human Rights Act 2019 and early signs are promising that human rights are having a practical and meaningful impact on the development of new laws, public sector decision making and the decisions of Queensland Court and Tribunals.
, Megan Fairweather
- Spotlight
Under the Human Rights Act, public entities must act or make a decision in a way that is compatible with human rights and give proper consideration to relevant human rights when making decisions.
, Melody Valentine
- Spotlight
The community, including community organisations, have a central role to play in developing a human rights culture in Queensland. Many community organisations in Queensland are considered to be public entities and must act compliantly with the Human Rights Act 2019.
, Aimee McVeigh, Monica Taylor
- Spotlight
COVID-19 introduced a plethora of conundrums when it came to keeping the community safe–with these issues further complicated when it came to the prisons during the pandemic.
, Helen Blaber, Tamara Walsh
- Spotlight
Natural and other disasters bring turmoil to our lives–they bring risk to personal and family safety, disruption to our daily routines, property loss and the inevitable long road to recovery. Disasters also bring the likelihood of derogation of human rights principles by Government. Sitting alongside necessary limitations is the spectre of unnecessary overreach by Government, whereby our guaranteed rights and standards can be stripped away. There one day, gone the next.
, Bill Mitchell OAM
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