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Just Cases
The biggest court cases you've never heard of. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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30 эпизодовIntroducing CASE IN POINT: Grave robbers! AI law enforcement!
Introducing CASE IN POINT, a new podcast from the hosts of JUST CASES: Melissa Castan (Professor of Law at Monash University) and James Pattison (the...
Episode 20: Could "billions of dollars" of government spending be unconstitutional?
Outrage over a federal government decision to put religious chaplains in government schools made headlines at the time for being a fight over the sepa...
Episode 19: Guinness World Record for... Death row
1968 seems a lifetime ago. It was a defining year of the 20th century. 1968 is also the year that a Japanese professional boxer was sentenced to death...
Episode 18: A country divided
A newly-elected Australian government is concerned about a growing Communist influence in Australia. The scene is set for a major High Court case.
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What is the rule of law? What is executive power? How do we hold power to account? Are our legal institutions and protections still relevant these da...
Episode 17: Do witchcraft laws breach freedom of religion?
How does Australian law protect the beliefs and religious practices of witches, conjurers and fortune-tellers? A High Court case from the 1930s could...
Episode 16: Hard cases make bad law
“There’s a saying in law that hard cases make bad law,” says Dr Colin Campbell. “Judges will sometimes do what they think is right in a particular cas...
BACK CATALOGUE: "They Don't Teach You This At Law School."
This is the most-downloaded episode of JUST CASES and one of the most controversial. June 1996. Late at night, two young men cross paths on a Sydney s...
Episode 15: Rolls-Royce's worldwide network of corruption
Earlier this year the UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced it had shut down a long-running investigation into corruption at Rolls-Royce. What did...
Rolls-Royce's "sophisticated criminal enterprise" (COMING SOON)
The name Rolls-Royce is synonymous with luxury. But in recent years, whistleblowers have revealed the prestige brand has been exporting corruption wor...
Episode 14: "Now free speech has been killed as well"
How does the law balance the rights of women to access safe and legal abortions with the right to free speech and protest?
For over twen...
Episode 13: Why is our secular government allowed to fund religious schools?
A fight over a new toilet block at a Catholic school in 1962 turns into a major constitutional and ideological war, the effects of which last until to...
Episode 12: Can a child decide to have gender-reassignment surgery?
Issues affecting transgender people are much more prominent in the public consciousness than they’ve ever been. This episode of JUST CASES explores on...
Episode 11: "He knows how to operate in the shadows"
The corruption case against former South African president Jacob Zuma has begun. Zuma’s case lifts the lid on the influence of weapons companies on go...
Episode 11 Trailer
The corruption trial of former President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, exposes the influence of weapons companies on governments worldwide. (UPCOMING E...
Just Cases: Season 3 coming soon
JUST CASES is back for another season. This season we’re looking ahead to some major court cases you need to know about, which will have an impact on...
Bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
It's just before midnight on 10 July 1985. The Port of Auckland, New Zealand. The Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace anti-nuclear protest ship, is sitting...
Treachery and Treason
A series of factory fires in Sydney in 1916 leads to a full-blown treason trial.
The case of the ‘IWW Twelve’ sees a dozen local members of a r...
Death at Sea
It’s the night of 2 August 1926. Five nautical miles off the coast of Lesbos. A French ship, the SS Lotus, is cruising towards its destination of Cons...
Why the world's wealthiest baby shouldn't be a company director
In 1886 a sensational banking scandal hit the headlines in Great Britain. It involved the world's richest man, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, the 3rd M...
Is S+M sex illegal?
If you engage in consensual sadomasochistic sex could you actually be found guilty of assault? The case of R v Brown is one of the most hotly debated...
Assault on the sports field
Can you be charged with assault for punching an opponent on the sports field? A violent on-field incident in the Australian Football League (AFL) has...
Welcome to Season 2 of Just Cases
Just Cases is back! Delivered every fortnight, Season 2 explores some of the weirdest court cases the experts are able to dig up, all for your listeni...
BONUS EPISODE: How can safe injecting rooms be legal?
The Victorian State Government has announced it will set up a safe injecting room, located in the inner Melbourne suburb of Richmond. It's a first for...
They don't teach you this at law school
June 1996. Late at night, two young men cross paths on a Sydney street. When the sun rises the following morning, one of them will be found dead.
How you can be detained for life without trial
The story of Ahmed Al-Kateb has far-reaching consequences for individual liberty. Mr Al-Kateb wanted to go home to Palestine, but the High Court decid...
Help! I crashed my Uber
In the gig economy our cars, spare rooms and spare time have become handy money-earners. But sometimes things don't go as planned. If you're an Uber d...
BONUS EPISODE: Chief Justice, is the same-sex marriage postal vote doomed?
What's the High Court challenge to the marriage equality postal vote all about? In this bonus episode Robert French, former Chief Justice of the High...
A dagger at the heart of society
In the middle of WW1, the Australian government launches a stinging attack on an international 'extremist' network of German sympathisers.
When...
Welcome to Just Cases
This new podcast from Monash Law School takes you behind the judgments and tells the backstory to some of the biggest legal cases that impact on our d...