Just Cases
The biggest court cases you've never heard of.
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- Update frequency
- every 14 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 30
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2024
Introducing CASE IN POINT: Grave robbers! AI law enforcement!
Introducing CASE IN POINT, a new podcast from the hosts of JUST CASES: Melissa Castan (Professor of Law at Monash University) and James Pattison (the guy who's not a Professor of Law at Monash Univer…
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Thu 17 Oct 2024
Episode 20: Could "billions of dollars" of government spending be unconstitutional?
Outrage over a federal government decision to put religious chaplains in government schools made headlines at the time for being a fight over the separation of church and state. But the real High Cou…
00:23:15 |
Mon 14 Dec 2020
Episode 19: Guinness World Record for... Death row
1968 seems a lifetime ago. It was a defining year of the 20th century. 1968 is also the year that a Japanese professional boxer was sentenced to death for murder. Remarkably, he remains on death row …
00:22:12 |
Fri 13 Nov 2020
Episode 18: A country divided
A newly-elected Australian government is concerned about a growing Communist influence in Australia. The scene is set for a major High Court case.
Court case:
Australian Communist Party v Commonwealt…
Court case:
Australian Communist Party v Commonwealt…
00:24:23 |
Fri 30 Oct 2020
New episodes!
What is the rule of law? What is executive power? How do we hold power to account? Are our legal institutions and protections still relevant these days?
The pandemic has upended a lot of things we t…
The pandemic has upended a lot of things we t…
00:00:56 |
Fri 30 Oct 2020
Episode 17: Do witchcraft laws breach freedom of religion?
How does Australian law protect the beliefs and religious practices of witches, conjurers and fortune-tellers? A High Court case from the 1930s could provide the answers.
There’s a big debate about r…
There’s a big debate about r…
00:32:24 |
Tue 17 Sep 2019
Episode 16: Hard cases make bad law
“There’s a saying in law that hard cases make bad law,” says Dr Colin Campbell. “Judges will sometimes do what they think is right in a particular case, but in doing that they will muck up the law."
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00:33:24 |
Thu 22 Aug 2019
BACK CATALOGUE: "They Don't Teach You This At Law School."
This is the most-downloaded episode of JUST CASES and one of the most controversial. June 1996. Late at night, two young men cross paths on a Sydney street. When the sun rises the following morning, …
00:27:50 |
Tue 06 Aug 2019
Episode 15: Rolls-Royce's worldwide network of corruption
Earlier this year the UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) announced it had shut down a long-running investigation into corruption at Rolls-Royce. What did the UK authorities have to trade in exchange for…
00:32:30 |
Wed 24 Jul 2019
Rolls-Royce's "sophisticated criminal enterprise" (COMING SOON)
The name Rolls-Royce is synonymous with luxury. But in recent years, whistleblowers have revealed the prestige brand has been exporting corruption worldwide. How does the criminal justice system resp…
00:00:22 |
Mon 22 Jul 2019
Episode 14: "Now free speech has been killed as well"
How does the law balance the rights of women to access safe and legal abortions with the right to free speech and protest?
For over twenty years anti-abortion protesters have picketed abortion clinic…
For over twenty years anti-abortion protesters have picketed abortion clinic…
00:28:36 |
Fri 12 Jul 2019
Episode 13: Why is our secular government allowed to fund religious schools?
A fight over a new toilet block at a Catholic school in 1962 turns into a major constitutional and ideological war, the effects of which last until today.
Australians traditionally sees themselves a…
Australians traditionally sees themselves a…
00:33:00 |
Tue 25 Jun 2019
Episode 12: Can a child decide to have gender-reassignment surgery?
Issues affecting transgender people are much more prominent in the public consciousness than they’ve ever been. This episode of JUST CASES explores one important legal issue: can children access horm…
00:28:47 |
Wed 12 Jun 2019
Episode 11: "He knows how to operate in the shadows"
The corruption case against former South African president Jacob Zuma has begun. Zuma’s case lifts the lid on the influence of weapons companies on governments worldwide.
“It’s not a story of a corru…
“It’s not a story of a corru…
00:35:13 |
Wed 29 May 2019
Episode 11 Trailer
The corruption trial of former President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, exposes the influence of weapons companies on governments worldwide. (UPCOMING EPISODE)
Music: 'Alum Drum Solo' by Blue Dot Sessio…
Music: 'Alum Drum Solo' by Blue Dot Sessio…
00:00:49 |
Tue 28 May 2019
Just Cases: Season 3 coming soon
JUST CASES is back for another season. This season we’re looking ahead to some major court cases you need to know about, which will have an impact on our lives in the future.
Can you create a valid w…
Can you create a valid w…
00:00:59 |
Fri 10 May 2019
Bombing of the Rainbow Warrior
It's just before midnight on 10 July 1985. The Port of Auckland, New Zealand. The Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace anti-nuclear protest ship, is sitting at its dock when two massive explosions tear thro…
00:36:02 |
Fri 23 Nov 2018
Treachery and Treason
A series of factory fires in Sydney in 1916 leads to a full-blown treason trial.
The case of the ‘IWW Twelve’ sees a dozen local members of a radical worldwide movement caught in a perfect political …
00:34:51 |
Fri 02 Nov 2018
Death at Sea
It’s the night of 2 August 1926. Five nautical miles off the coast of Lesbos. A French ship, the SS Lotus, is cruising towards its destination of Constantinople. The ship’s first officer is keeping w…
00:22:40 |
Fri 19 Oct 2018
Why the world's wealthiest baby shouldn't be a company director
In 1886 a sensational banking scandal hit the headlines in Great Britain. It involved the world's richest man, John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, the 3rd Marquess of Bute, and it led to an absurd decision…
00:22:56 |
Wed 05 Sep 2018
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