| | [Hillier v R Supreme Court, ACT, Court of Appeal]
[Full Summary] | | Hillier v R — Supreme Court, ACT, Court of Appeal — Madgwick, Weinberg and Dowsett JJ — 6 Mar 2008 [2008] ACTCA 3, BC200801230, 52 pages
Scientific — Absence of DNA evidence — New evidence — Appeal against conviction — Appellant convi... |
| [Munmurrie v State of Western Australia]
[Full Summary] | | The appellant sought leave to appeal from his conviction for unlawful killing on six grounds, including:
The learned trial judge erred in law and fact by misdirecting the jury on the drawing of inferences
(a) by failing to dir... |
| [Acuna v Turkish]
[Full Summary] | | In this case decided in the New Jersey Supreme Court, the Court refused to rule on when human life begins. |
| [R v Fitzherbert 2000 QCA 255]
[Full Summary] | | This is an appeal against a conviction of the murder of one Kathleen Marshall. She was stabbed to death in her veterinary surgery on Thursday 26 or Friday 27 February 1998 and her body was found on Sunday 1 March 1998. The allegation that the appella... |
| [McD. -v- L. [2007] IESC 28]
[Full Summary] | | A sperm donor from the Republic of Ireland fighting for joint custody of his biological son, following the break-down of his relationship with the lesbian couple he donated his sperm to has won a Supreme Court battle, preventing the couple from takin... |
| [Washington University v. Catalona]
[Full Summary] | | The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld an appeal by the University of Washington against one of its former researchers, Dr William Catalona, ruling that UW owns the biological materials stored in its Genito-Urinary Repository. Neither Dr Ca... |
| [Keir v R [2007] NSWCCA 149]
[Full Summary] | | Keir appealed his conviction for his wife's murder on the grounds, inter alia, that the trial Judge erroneously and wrongfully disregarded and rejected the contamination factor concerning DNA testing and results and that he erroneously and wrongfully... |
| [California Family Bioethics Council v California Institute for Regenerative Medicine]
[Full Summary] | | A final challenge to California's Proposition 71 has been dismissed by that state's Supreme Court. The finding that CIRM was not unconstitutional leaves the Institute free to distribute funding for stem cell research. |
| [KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc.]
[Full Summary] | | In a decision that may have major ramifications for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries a ruling from the US Supreme Court has relaxed the existing tests of 'obviousness' in patent law. |
| [Magill v Magill 2006 HCA 51]
[Full Summary] | | The respondent made false representations in the course of the marriage concerning the paternity of children born during the marriage. DNA testing after the marriage ended revealed two children of the marriage were not the biological children of the ... |
