Jeremy Gans, Discover and Read the Best of Twitter Threads by @jeremy_gans

Jeremy Gans

jeremy_gans

Lots of talk of constitutional challenges to the India ‘pause’ thing. But why would this challenge succeed when the challenge to the closed WA border didn’t? The Constitution has more

For those trying to understand the English postmasters miscarriage of justice, this (from before the latest ruling) is the best, most readable read I've seen so far: https://www.private-eye.co.uk/pictures/special_reports/justice-lost-in

A quote for Heydon’s 1984 evidence text is making the rounds. Not because I think it changes the meaning, but because I think all journos should quote context, here's the

The federal/ACT codes have a codified form of the common law (SA, really) defence of act of another. It's little used and rarely succeeds.Some incompetent round-the-world yachters (facing forfeiture of

A 2003 US case I was somehow unaware of on whether or not the X-men and various other beings are human beings: https://www.cit.uscourts.gov/sites/cit/files/slip-op%2003-2.pdf. It's a customs duty dispute over whether

"Amid other indignities the system visits on jurors, it compels them to suffer in silence. But they are us. We citizens are potential jurors, and our response to future requests

Once a jury found Pell guilty, his case was always going to end up in @highcourtofaus: https://cdn.hcourt.gov.au/assets/registry/court-lists/2020/7-04-20.pdf. But I always expected a whimper (a one-line rejection of special leave),not a

The high profile case is the Claremont serial killings trial. Ferguson CJ's sentiment is an important one, but I think it's overstated. The presence of heightened public interest can and

A thread on choice quotes from Gordon J in last Thursday's directions hearing in the s44 challenge arising from last election, Staindl v Frydenberg. The big issue is potential remittal

@SCC_eng rules that a ‘hold handrail’ sign does not create a criminal offence, that Montreal transport police wrongly arrested the plaintiff for refusing to hold the rail or provide her

What the grant of leave means: it means that Pell's case isn't over (as it otherwise would have been.) It won't be over until mid-next year. There will be a