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Evidence On Trial: Why The Forensic Evidence Is Less Reliable Than We Think – 2 January 2020
Recent cases suggest that much of the forensic evidence we’ve come to accept in the courtroom may actually be far less reliable than we think. Article states that courts haven’t been very good at regulating both the admissibility and the use, and explaining the limitations, of forensic science evidence. Also many of the forensic sciences, and particularly the ones out of police laboratories, have not come from mainstream science.
Another iSignthis customer has assets frozen amid ASIC investigation – 2 January 2020
ASIC has launched court action to freeze the assets of tech group iSignthis due to allegations they are linked to online trading scams, groups disclosures and the type of clients held.
Fairwork investigates company guarding Melbourne’s New Year celebrations – 28 December 2019
The biggest public safety challenge on the Victorian calendar – Melbourne’s New Year’s Eve fireworks display – has been left in the hands of a security company under investigation by the Fair Work Ombudsman for its opaque employment arrangements and use of subcontracted guards.
Australian banking ends a year from hell as ‘the face of unconscionable greed’ – 25 December 3019
Article summarises the woes of the big banks over the last year including the outcomes of the banking royal commission, the scandals such as charging dead people fees, signing up vulnerable people to useless insurance and systematically undermining the retirement nest eggs of workers through high charges and poor investment returns.
