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CLANT congratulates Acting Justice The Honourable Dean Mildren RFD QC, who in the Queen’s Birthday 2013  Honours List was made a Member of the General Division of the Order of Australia for “significant service to the judiciary and to the law in the Northern Territory”.  Dean Mildren is a Life Member of CLANT, and by a wide margin…

CLANT is delighted to announce that our Patron, the Hon. Justice Virginia Bell AC, will deliver the third biennial Tony Fitzgerald Memorial Lecture, at 6 pm on Thursday 20 March 2014, at the Northern Territory Library, State Square, Darwin.

On 29 May 2013, NAAJA Principal Legal Officer Jonathon Hunyor delivered this paper, “Territory Lifestyle: Behind Bars?”, to the annual NT Council of Social Services conference in Darwin. Read it. It’s a cracker.

On 27 May 2013, the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency, the Central Australian Aboriginal Legal Aid Service and the Northern Territory Legal Aid Commission made this detailed joint Submission to the Minister for Alcohol Rehabilitation in relation to the Alcohol Management Treatment Bill.  On 7 June 2013, the Law Society Northern Territory Submission on the Bill…

CLANT welcomes the announcement by Chief Justice Trevor Riley of the commencement on 3 June 2013 of the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory Interpreter Protocols, posted here on the Court’s website.  The establishment of the Protocols is a significant achievement, and follows the Court’s 2012 Language and the Law conference, which was proudly supported by CLANT.

On 21 May 2013, a Forum was convened by NT Attorney-General John Elferink to gauge the views of the profession as to whether or not to continue the process of converting offences to Part IIAA of the Criminal Code, as per the Model Criminal Code.  Here is a report of the Forum, including CLANT’s submission.

CLANT has recently made submissions to the Northern Territory Attorney-General and Minister for Justice on the following three policy issues: Proposal to extend s21B of the Evidence Act to summary proceedings Crofts Directions Model Criminal Code

CLANT deplores the impending commencement on 1 May 2013 of radical new mandatory sentencing laws for violent offenders.  Details of the new provisions are here.  Although there is provision for courts to avoid imposing the applicable compulsory 12 or 3 months sentences of actual imprisonment in exceptional circumstances, the inevitable result of these draconian provisions…

An article on the Crikey website headed “NT Police go the Thumper: Losing the war against grog and crime” characterises CLANT as having been “once venerable”.  In our outraged response, we say: The “once venerable” Criminal Lawyers Association of the Northern Territory (CLANT) rejects the scandalous imputation that we were ever venerated… Notwithstanding this slur, CLANT welcomes this…