Articles
Justice Delayed is Justice Denied
This paper recounts a systemic failure to first report and then investigate the 28 deaths of Western Australian babies who were born alive following an abortion procedure and who have now tragically been denied justice - due to extraordinary delays by the Executive Branch of Government and the Judicial Branch, and which were then crystallised by the Legislative Branch.
A Call for transparency and accountability in the 41st parliament
On Wednesday 5 May 2021, I moved a motion to establish a select committee into the transparency and accountability of government.
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Mandatory Reporting of Health Professionals: the case for a Western Australian style exemption for all Australian practitioners
The Journal of Law and Medicine, 2014, published an article entitled “Mandatory reporting of health professionals: the case for a Western Australian style exemption for all Australian practitioners” which was co-authored by Hon Nick Goiran MLC, Margaret Kay, Louise Nash and Georgie Haysom.
The article discusses the current mandatory reporting obligations for health practitioners in Australia under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law. It provides a summary of the mandatory notification legislation, and contextualises the introduction of this law.
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A Tale of Two Doctors: A Comparison of the Dekker and Nitschke Cases
I presented this paper at the Britain Pacific Medical & Legal Conference at The University of London on 5 January 2015. In it I compare the high profile case studies of two medical practitioners in the Australian jurisdiction. I co-authored this paper which sets out key moments in a twelve year time-frame from 2002 to 2014 and contrasts the treatment by The Medical Board of Australia of two practitioners in order to re-pose the question of what constitutes improper and/or infamous conduct for medical practitioners.
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The Role of Parliament in Protecting Free Speech: Four Very Different Case Studies
This article was published in The West Australian Jurist,Vol 4 I discuss the vexed issue of freedom of speech. In this paper, I focus on the role of Australian State parliaments in protecting free speech and in limiting it, when considered justified by other public interests. I reference this to four different case studies: shield laws for journalists; the sexualisation of children; hate-speech laws and parliamentary privilege.
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Integrity Bodies, Witness Surveillance and Legal Professional Privilege: A Case Study
I presented a lecture at the West Europe Pacific Legal Conference in Paris, France in January 2014 based on this paper that I co-authored with Mr Michael Burton entitled Integrity Bodies, Witness Surveillance and Legal Professional Privilege: A Case Study.
This article discusses the responsibilities of integrity bodies when undertaking the surveillance of witnesses and when dealing with legal professional privilege. It looks particularly into the lessons learnt from the experience of Western Australia’s Corruption and Crime Commission following its investigation into the procurement practices of a local government authority.
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The Inherent Failure of Current Occupational Health and Safety Legislation in Prostitution.
I co-authored this article with Mrs Anushka van der Veen to challenge the new and dominant discourse emerging in prostitution research, that sex work is not unlike any other occupation and that labour normalisation and the introduction of OHS principles have notably improved the health and safety of sex workers. Examination of the available literature on OHS in prostitution however, evidences that, in those jurisdictions where OHS guidelines are in place, implementation and enforcement has proved to be poor.
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