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		<title>Dr Patel guilty of manslaughter and grievous bodily harm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In what circumstances should the negligence of a surgeon be regarded as criminal?   This question was answered on 30 June 2010 after six and a half days of deliberation by the 12 members (six men and six women) of the jury in the Brisbane Supreme Court trial of former Bundaberg Hospital surgeon, Jayant Patel. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Refugee Day: What’s it all about?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[World Refugee Day, which is June 20 each year, is promoted by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a way of leading and coordinating international action to protect refugees worldwide. According to the UNHCR, there are 42 million people throughout the world who have been uprooted from their homelands. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://legalstudiesqld.com.au/blog/2010/07/15/world-refugee-day-what%e2%80%99s-it-all-about/</link>
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		<title>Police Powers: Your Rights Resource</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brisbane’s Caxton Legal Centre Inc. has recently published a booklet, called ‘Police Powers: Your Rights’, which is a clear and logical practical guide to your rights when dealing with the police. Collaborating with the Queensland Council for Civil Liberties, the Caxton Legal Centre has produced a resource that will, on a day-to-day basis, make the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://legalstudiesqld.com.au/blog/2010/07/15/police-powers-your-rights-resource/</link>
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		<title>Getting away with murder?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In June 2010, Susan Falls, 42, was found not guilty of murder by a Supreme Court jury after it had deliberated for just 90 minutes, despite having intentionally killed her husband, Rodney Falls, by drugging him and then shooting him twice in the head in their Caloundra family home in 2006. Three men were found [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://legalstudiesqld.com.au/blog/2010/07/15/getting-away-with-murder/</link>
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		<title>Girl Power!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On 24 June 2010, Australia’s first female Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, was sworn in by Australia’s first female Governor-General, former Queensland Governor, Quentin Bryce. Julia Gillard was not elected to this position directly by the Australian people but, rather, together with other Government Ministers and backseaters in the Australian Labor Party, forced Kevin Rudd to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Constitutional Change – Queensland now has a Preamble to his Constitution. But not everyone is happy.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On 23rd February 2010 the Queensland Parliament amended the state’s Constitution to include a Preamble. Unlike the Commonwealth Constitution which requires a referendum (see Legal Studies for Queensland Vol 1 p 40) to amend the Constitution this is not required in Queensland. A majority vote in the unicameral Queensland Parliament is sufficient. The opposition has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://legalstudiesqld.com.au/blog/2010/02/24/constitutional-change-%e2%80%93-queensland-now-has-a-preamble-to-his-constitution-but-not-everyone-is-happy/</link>
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		<title>Chief Justice of Queensland defends sentencing processes in Queensland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brisbane’s ‘bikeway rapist’ was convicted of sexual offences including five of (digital) rape of 11 victims and he was sentenced for 25 years imprisonment (non-parole period of 15 years). He appealed to the Court of Appeal to have his sentence reduced. The Court of Appeal accepted the argument by counsel that the sentence was manifestly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://legalstudiesqld.com.au/blog/2010/02/24/chief-justice-of-queensland-defends-sentencing-processes-in-queensland/</link>
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		<title>New internet case</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The challenges which arise when the law tries to keep up with rapid technological developments are explored in Topic VII – Technology and the Law in Legal Studies for Queensland Vol 2. One recurring issue arising from the global nature of the internet is which courts have jurisdiction over material on the internet, that is, which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://legalstudiesqld.com.au/blog/2010/02/21/new-internet-case/</link>
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		<title>Face-to-face with Queensland’s Drug Court</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Wayne Swile has worked in the court system for 27 years, with the last seven years in the Drug Court as the South-East Queensland Coordinator. In October 2009, Mr. Swile gave a visiting Year 12 Legal Studies class the following information and insights into the purposes and processes of this new sentencing court for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cyber-love, evidence from chat-rooms, the power of religion and a murder: issues arising from the Kaihana Hussain trial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kaihana Tahseen Hussain, 20, stood trial for the murder of her mother, Shaheda Yasmeen Hussain, and the attempted murder of her father, Dr Muhammad Nurual Hussain, in the family&#8217;s Gold Coast apartment on October 9, 2006. She was 17 at the time. The case for the prosecution was centered on the father’s evidence that she [...]]]></description>
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