15 October 2013, 6pm - 7:30pm
Tyree Room, John Niland Scientia Building, UNSW Kensington campus.
Event details
When:
15 October 2013, 6pm - 7:30pm
Where:
Tyree Room, John Niland Scientia Building, UNSW Kensington campus.
Event type:
Lecture
Event open to:
All
Cost:
Free
Booking is necessary
For full details:
Hear from former NSW Director of Public Prosecution, Nicholas Cowdery, at the final Justice Talks lecture in 2013.
The criminal law creates crimes and the procedures for formally dealing with them, recognising and seeking to protect individual rights. We expect it to enable justice to be done between an offender and the community. But the laws are made by parliaments and interpreted and applied by the courts; so whose justice is done - and does the law sometimes stand in its way? And if it does, what can we do about it? A lawyer reflects on 45 years.
The criminal law creates crimes and the procedures for formally dealing with them, recognising and seeking to protect individual rights. We expect it to enable justice to be done between an offender and the community. But the laws are made by parliaments and interpreted and applied by the courts; so whose justice is done - and does the law sometimes stand in its way? And if it does, what can we do about it? A lawyer reflects on 45 years.