"A therapeutic, whole-of-life approach to recovering a young life, must have as its focus interventions managed by well-trained, passionate staff and paid enough to want to stay," writes HUGH SELBY.
Hugh Selby
Hugh Selby is the "CityNews" legal affairs commentator. His free podcasts on "Witness Essentials" and "Advocacy in court: preparation and performance" can be heard on the best known podcast sites.
Columnist HUGH SELBY takes to poetry with a seasonal message of hope.
"Inadequate funding leads to inadequate preparation and piss-poor performance. That’s a disaster for the accused." HUGH SELBY puts the case for why the ACT needs a Public Defenders Office or increased Legal Aid funding, or both.
Complainants of sexual assault want to be believed, but that doesn’t always happen. HUGH SELBY takes a close look at possible reasons for non-acceptance.
Lawyers in NSW are banned from using AI to create evidence papers and judges can't use AI to formulate reasons for judgments. Legal columnist HUGH SELBY imagines a different world, where justice is as easy as popping into an AI Justice Hub.
Legal columnist HUGH SELBY offers a learned review of a new book likely to ruffle feathers as it pokes fun at the Australian legal profession.
Legal columnist HUGH SELBY, identifying a bumblebee, takes a flight of fancy around a real life retelling of the tea party in Alice in Wonderland that is keeping the legal fraternity's gossips in Sydney and beyond entertained.
Legal columnist HUGH SELBY highlights aspects of the 40,000-word reasoning in a recent High Court of Australia case. He says it wasn't an easy read, but there are important lessons from this exercise, lessons likely to fall upon deaf ears.
Imagine you went to court with your partner and your mum, and a judge estimated your compensation claim at $3 million but you won't see a cent of it. Legal columnist HUGH SELBY exposes an arcane reality of the ACT Crimes Act.
In this column HUGH SELBY sets a warring scene of history, with a focus on the Middle East, then follows with a sobering generic warning that looks at the seeds of ethnic and religious hatred and what mankind may harvest in the future.
Columnist HUGH SELBY ponders the political and legal downsides of life in the court of Emperor Donnie I.
"He had learned from his judge, so long ago, that so much could be achieved over a cup of tea with just the parties and the judge present... Serve the tea hot so that it and tempers could cool together," writes legal columnist HUGH SELBY.
