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×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog mourns passing of James Crawford (1948-2021)

His Excellency Judge James Crawford

The ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide 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Provocation Repealed: Research Tuesdays

Scales of Justice

‘Gay panic’ is no longer accepted as a defence for murder in South ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog. Why and what is the likely impact of the change to the law?

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Scholarship for First Nations law student

Mikeyli Hendry

A student from the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide’s Adelaide Law School has received a scholarship from one of the legal community’s peak bodies to help her finish her studies.

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Experts’ recommendations become landmark law

Scales of Justice

With the successful passing of abortion legislation in the South ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn Parliament, the State’s abortion laws have been ‘brought into the 21st century’. Recommendations made by legal experts from the independent South ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn Law Reform Institute (SALRI) based at the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide’s Adelaide Law School, have led to historic changes to the law.

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×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide student awarded national Hawker Scholarship

Book cover of Charles Hawker book

First-year ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide 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 ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog.

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Thou shall not kill and inherit?

SALRI team and the Attorney General

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.

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Decriminalisation not deregulation for SA abortion laws

Scales of Justice

The independent South ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn Law Reform Institute (SALRI) based at the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide has recommended major changes to South ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn abortion laws in its report to the Attorney General .

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Law students support appellants

Law students at the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide.

Law students from the ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlog of Adelaide are providing free advice to people who are appealing their case at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.

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Check ANGELS before launching into space

Finger pointing at scales in space

Entrepreneurs working in the expanding ×îÐÂÌÇÐÄVlogn 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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