- Mental Health Tribunal -

Here is a selection of my publications. Click on the title to view the whole text, or chose a category on the left.

  • Tougher test for `insane' killers
    11.10.1999
    By: Tony Koch VICIOUS killers and rapists who escape trial by claiming insanity will face tougher scrutiny under a new Mental Health Act. The legislation replaces the existing Mental Health Tribunal with a Mental Health Court which will... read more
  • DO JUDGES REALLY KNOW BETTER?
    22.07.1999
    David Solomon contributing editor JUSTICE Richard Chesterman is among a small number of Australian judges who believe that judges rather than juries should assess medical evidence in criminal cases. Last week Justice Chesterman, in the course of a... read more
  • TRIBUNAL IS INNOVATIVE
    16.07.1999
    By: RICHARD CHESTERMAN On Tuesday The Courier-Mail reported the distress of Robyn Clarke whose 17-year-old daughter Janaya, was fatally stabbed last year on the Gold Coast. The Queensland Mental Health Tribunal has ruled that Janaya's killer... read more
  • ELITISM NO ANSWER TO JUSTICE
    16.07.1999
    Elitism no answer to question of justice Tony Koch chief reporter JUSTICE Richard Chesterman's defence of the Mental Health Tribunal's handling of Claude John Gabriel, who stabbed teenager Janaya Clarke to death last year, is a welcome... read more
  • LAW LETS KILLER ESCAPE TRIAL
    13.07.1999
    Law lets killer escape trial Tony Koch chief reporter THE distraught mother of a 17-year-old girl brutally stabbed to death on the Gold Coast late last year has blasted the Queensland justice system which will ensure her daughter's killer never... read more
  • Picking up the pieces after mum's murder
    20.12.1997
    By: KOCH A WADE Nash faces his third bleak and lonely Christmas after his mother was murdered at Coolum in 1995. Wade, 15, at least has the company of his maternal grandparents, Ron and Pat Nash, with whom he is holidaying at... read more
  • Farrah being used, says mother
    18.10.1997
    CONFESSED killer Ross Farrah was being used as a scapegoat in a political game of one-upmanship to change Queensland's Mental Health Act, according to his mother. Yvonne Farrah of Coolum Beach on the Sunshine Coast believes that while her son is too... read more
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