Ursula Noye
Blackstrikes A Study of the Racially Disparate Use of Peremptory Challenges by the Caddo Parish District Attorney’s office
(For more information, visit Blackstrikes.com, a Reprieve Australia initiative.)

Sue Oliver SM
When the Vulnerable Offend

Trevor Riley CJ
Introductory Remarks

Jared Sharp
Does the Northern Territory Youth Justice System deliver justice for vulnerable young offenders or their victims?

Walter Sofronoff QC
Apologia for the Legal Profession (Keynote address)

Nicole Spicer
Civil Law Consequences for Criminal Law Clients

Sandra Wendlandt
Diversionary Programs in a Restorative Justice Framework

The CLANT Players present:
THE SHEARER’S TALE: Murder and Injustice in the Australian Bush

San Rocco: A non-secular patron for the Criminal Lawyers Association of the Northern Territory?

San Rocco was a 14th century ascetic who, despite his inherited wealth and position, set out as a mendicant pilgrim for Rome on the death of his parents in his twentieth year.

He arrived in Italy during an outbreak of the plague, and was “diligent” in treating and curing victims. He succumbed to the illness at Piacenza and was banished to a forest to die. He would have perished had not a dog found him, supplied him with bread and licked his wounds.

On his return to his home town of Montpellier he was arrested as a spy and jailed for five years where he languished without revealing his name, to avoid worldly glory.

He is invoked against the plague, and since that time he has been recognised as the patron saint of dogs, including of course CLANT’s Canis lupus dingo. For his fortitude in refusing to reveal his identity to authorities he is also recognised as the patron saint of the unjustly accused.

Image: A rare 21st century print inspired by the chiesa di san Rocco in Scigghiju, Calabria

Why San Rocco wears an Akubra