News: law
University mourns passing of James Crawford (1948-2021)
The ³ÉÈË´óƬ has expressed its sorrow following the death of one of its greatest law graduates, His Excellency Judge James Crawford AC SC FBA.
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Provocation Repealed: Research Tuesdays
‘Gay panic’ is no longer accepted as a defence for murder in South Australia. Why and what is the likely impact of the change to the law?
Scholarship for First Nations law student
A student from the ³ÉÈË´óƬ’s Adelaide Law School has received a scholarship from one of the legal community’s peak bodies to help her finish her studies.
Experts’ recommendations become landmark law
With the successful passing of abortion legislation in the South Australian Parliament, the State’s abortion laws have been ‘brought into the 21st century’. Recommendations made by legal experts from the independent South Australian Law Reform Institute (SALRI) based at the ³ÉÈË´óƬ’s Adelaide Law School, have led to historic changes to the law.
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³ÉÈË´óƬ student awarded national Hawker Scholarship
First-year ³ÉÈË´óƬ student Oliver Douglas has been awarded a 2020 C.A.S. Hawker Scholarship, one of the most generous privately funded residential scholarships available to undergraduate and postgraduate students in Australia.
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Thou shall not kill and inherit?
Recommendations could give courts discretionary powers in how they apply the law of forfeiture especially in cases where a victim of domestic abuse kills in self-defence.
Decriminalisation not deregulation for SA abortion laws
The independent South Australian Law Reform Institute (SALRI) based at the ³ÉÈË´óƬ has recommended major changes to South Australian abortion laws in its report to the Attorney General .
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Law students support appellants
Law students from the ³ÉÈË´óƬ are providing free advice to people who are appealing their case at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
Check ANGELS before launching into space
Entrepreneurs working in the expanding Australian space industry now have access to online guidance about the legal and regulatory framework which applies to their activities on Earth and in space.
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