Category Archives: Analysis

Victoria’s Committal Reforms and Serious Criminal Defence

On 28 December 2025, significant changes were made to the way serious criminal matters are [...]

Review of Victoria’s Proposed Anti-Protest Laws

Judicial Independence – by Stephen Parker

The Adversarial System – by Stephen Parker

People who enter a court for the first time are often surprised at how arguments [...]

How did we get here? A Human Source Management Bill 2023 which sanctifies corruption? Who knows?

The Rule of Law

Mandatory Sentencing: Jailing People Should Be Left to Judges, Not Politicians

Authored by Thomas Bell, Senior Associate at Galbally Parker Lawyers Over the past ten years [...]

Open Letter to the Australian Governments from stakeholders in the Criminal Justice and Prisoner Welfare spaces

This afternoon an open letter was sent to the Australian Governments and posted online. It [...]

Open Letter to Corrections Victoria

Numbers of Women in Custody Rising

An article from The Age reports that the number of women in custody is rising, which [...]