'Stop-and-frisk' can work, under careful supervision
Dec 09, 2019 04:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
In mid-November, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg apologized publicly for his backing of a practice intended to reduce violent crime that had for years been criticized as racially biased. I realize back then I...
Emails outside working hours: are they against employment law?
Dec 09, 2019 04:43 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
It is common for many employees to send, read and reply to work emails at all hours of the day and night, including weekends. This change in work culture developed in recent decades and has accelerated with the advent of...
London Bridge attack: why longer sentences for terrorist offences are not the answer
Dec 04, 2019 12:15 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law
Following the recent attack in London, where two Cambridge University graduates were stabbed to death and at least three other people were seriously wounded by convicted terrorist Usman Khan, many questions are now being...
Westpac ticking every anti-money-laundering box wouldn't make much difference to criminals
Dec 03, 2019 03:40 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
The charges surrounding Westpacs alleged 23 million breaches of anti-money laundering laws have been called about as serious as it gets. They include, in the words of Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, giving a free pass...
Australia’s proposed defamation law overhaul will expand media freedom – but at what cost?
Dec 03, 2019 03:32 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Last Friday, Australias attorneys-general agreed on proposed amendments to the provisions which underpin Australian defamation laws. This means Australian governments have a plan for how to change defamation...
What's happened to UK migration since the EU referendum – in four graphs
Dec 03, 2019 03:30 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
Many of the analyses of why a majority of British voters opted to leave the European Union in a referendum in June 2016, have pointed to a desire to control immigration as a key driving factor. However, surveys since the...
Dec 01, 2019 03:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Law
When children are unable to live safely at home with their parents, they may enter out-of-home care. Most of these children are in foster or kinship care and many are able safely to go home after a period of time. But...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Biden administration tells employers to stop shackling workers with ‘noncompete agreements’
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects