Richard Ackland
Richard Ackland publishes the law journals Justinian and Gazette of Law and Journalism. He is a Gold Walkley winner and a former host of Media Watch and Radio National's Late Night Live. He has written on law and lawyers for 40 years. He is a graduate in economics and law and has been admitted as a legal practitioner to the supreme court of NSW.
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There are grounds to counter and reduce the expansion of religious freedoms, considering church’s cruel contribution during the marriage equality survey
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The appeal judges found it would be oppressive to put Lazarus to the ‘worry of a third trial’. One wonders how the young woman might feel
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An important part of any legislation would require businesses to report what goes on in their supply chains. And already, the battle lines are drawn
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Apart from an intriguing side show about journalists and their sources, it’s yet to be determined if the search warrants were valid at all
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The release of documents from an inquiry into Lionel Murphy leaves us with a lot of unproved allegations and a bleak picture of Sydney in the 1970s
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We should question both the ability and the character of a man who exercises more discretionary powers than any other minister
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The deputy prime minister’s future is at the mercy of the high court’s interpretation of a vaguely-written clause of the constitution. There could be some legal fireworks
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The law firm had an illustrious heritage as a protector of working people and boasted Julia Gillard among its former staff. Guardian columnist Richard Ackland looks at its grand stock market experiment and how it all went wrong
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It took Richard Ackland more than two months to get the full judgment in the Luke Lazarus rape case. It reveals a case where alcohol, innocence and the law collided
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Irrespective of what Peter Dutton says, this has been a ground-breaking outcome, and Nauru could be Coalition’s next headache
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Politicians are trying to find words that are simultaneously calming, embracing and assertive. But there’s only one direction in which our freedoms are heading
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Donald Trump and Peter Dutton have both criticised judges and the media. What does it say about their grasp of the functions of democracy?
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A man who came to Australia 17 years ago has been in detention for nearly five years with little prospect of being repatriated, or even resettled elsewhere
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The anti-18C brigade, whose grasp on free speech has always been shallow, strained to spin it in novel directions this week as they piled on a 26-year-old
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George Brandis claims there are ‘no cuts’ to community legal centres that are having their funding cut, under a national ‘agreement’ that no one agreed to
#MeToo has led to an asphyxiating vortex of litigation