PUBLIC ADDRESS 17/03/11 - Criminal law, IP law, Japan and the RWC

TPPA: It's Extreme
10:27 Mar 17, 2011 in Speaker by Rick Shera

The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement attracted little attention when it was forged in 2005. That changed with negotiations to admit five new countries, most notably the US. And now, says Rick Shera, things are getting seriously weird. Yes, it's a...
http://publicaddress.net/speaker/tppa-its-extreme/

Why the disaster in Japan made me want an iPhone
7:39 Mar 17, 2011 in Speaker by Garth Bray

They look too big to carry comfortably in your pocket. And your ear bumps the screen and before you know it you're messing up a call. They're basically for wankers, aren't they? Or those tragics who absolutely live on Facebook...
http://publicaddress.net/speaker/why-the-disaster-in-japan-made-me-want-an/

Hidden in plain sight
3:30 Mar 17, 2011 in Legal Beagle by Graeme Edgeler

I have posted on criminal procedure before. The Criminal Procedure Bill - finally passed in 2009 - introduced a swathe of changes to New Zealand's criminal process. In the end, its most controversial aspect seemed to be the move away from oral...
http://publicaddress.net/legalbeagle/hidden-in-plain-sight/

Hospital Pass
16:21 Mar 16, 2011 in Field Theory by Hadyn Green

And so here we are. It's the year of the Rugby World Cup, an event that a lot of people are looking forward to (haters to the back please) and that a lot of people worked hard to get to...
http://publicaddress.net/fieldtheory/hospital-pass/

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