Essay on R V Bilal Skaf, Legal Studies Research Report

The hearing was commenced on Tuesday, 7 October 2014 at the Land and Environment Court 3A, Windeyer Chambers 225 Macquarie Street, Sydney. It was led by Commissioner Dixon.

Analyze Luxford & Anor v Sidhu & 3 others [2007] NSWSC 1356 (3 December 2007) as follows:

The Court ruled in favor of the appellant, and the decision is described as follows:

In this case, Kennedy v NSW Minister for Planning [2010] NSWLEC 129 the plaintiff is identified as Roy “Dutch” Kennedy on behalf of Sandon Point Aboriginal Tent Embassy and the defendant is the NSW Minister for planning . The case was heard in the NSW Land and Environment Court by Justice Biscoe. The applicant is lodging a review, and thus challenging the grounds of the original decision in relation to the legality of an administrative decision by the Minister for the Stockland’s Developments Pty Ltd.

Your managing partner has handed you the Supreme Court of Queenslands’ decision in The Public Trustee of Queensland and Anor v Meyer and Ors [2010] QSC 291 and asked you to answer the following questions. You should assume you are answering questions for someone who has not read the case, so be sure to provide sufficient detail in your answers. You do not need to provide reference details for Part A of the assignment.

1A duel was a common way of solving disputes and the loser was the first to have their blood touch the ground. The winner was believed to be right because the gods would help the right man

(b) R v Secretary of State for Transport, ex p Factortame Ltd (No.1) [1990] AC 85 and (No.2) [1991] 1 AC 603

The offenders name is Simon Gittany, an Australian Catholic male, with Arab roots. He was 37 years old at the time of the homicide. His exact placement within the family is unknown, however

The case (1992) was sent to the Supreme Court of Queensland, but this was postponed when the Meriam men brought another case to the High court that challenged a document of the Queensland Government’s.

Despite the efforts of lawyers and judges to eliminate racial discrimination in the courts, does racial bias play a part in today’s jury selection? Positive steps have been taken in past court cases to ensure fair and unbiased juries. Unfortunately, a popular strategy among lawyers is to incorporate racial bias without directing attention to their actions. They are taught to look for the unseen and to notice the unnoticed. The Supreme Court in its precedent setting decision on the case of Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79 (1986), is the first step to limiting racial discrimination in the court room. The process of selecting jurors begins with prospective jurors being brought into the courtroom, then

be described. Jurisdictional requirements for this case as well as the reasons why it was heard at

The case of Mabo v Others v State of Queensland (No.2) (1992) 175 CLR 1 (www.austlii, 1993), rewrote common law as the court ruled in a six to one majority, that the people of

The structure of Canada’s courts contains, in decreasing order of power, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Courts of Appeal, the Superior Courts, and the Provincial Courts. The most common are the Provincial Courts, which include family, civil, criminal, and youth divisions. These courts manage most youth and criminal justice preliminary hearings, trials, and bails. Throughout all of the provinces, the function and structures of the provincial courts are the same.

The main issue that brought attention to this law was the Singh case, which demonstrates a man murdering his wife, with his first attempt of strangling her, and when that was not successful, he began to slit her throat with a Stanley knife. This degree of violence, alongside his sentencing gives the impression that the judiciary system, courts and parliament partially understood the idea that men should have the authority to violently retaliate to the words of women, which can potentially lead to death. The idea that women ask for violence through their words or actions, and the concept of ‘a crime of passion’ are very outdated, and display the values that societies held when women did not have the same amount of rights, respect and power in

To critically evaluate the impact of the cases R v Bugmy and R v Munda on the existing case law.