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Keeping the sisterhood from extinction: The struggle to save nuns in America
Hollie McKay
Substack·2023
It’s an image woven into America’s cultural fabric: Catholic nuns, heads bowed in deep devotion, reciting prayers and lighting candles.
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View paper →Gabriel v Coroners Court of Victoria [2026] VSC 11 (28 January 2026)
[2026] VSC 11
austlii.edu.au·2026
CORONER’S COURT — Appeal against coroner’s refusal to undertake autopsy — Appeal to single judge, pursuant to Coroners Act 2008 s 79 — Whether Coroner erred in determining that it was not necessary or appropriate that a direction be given that an autopsy be performed — Whether Coroner erred in failing to consider how and/or whether an autopsy would assist in establishing the circumstances in which the death occurred — The Coroner erred in failing to consider how the results of an autopsy could bear upon the wider investigation — Appeal allowed — Coroners Act 2008 ss 25, 67, 79, 88.
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View paper →DPP v Ollis [2026] VCC 20 (27 January 2026)
[2026] VCC 20
austlii.edu.au·2026
Catchwords: Sexual penetration of a child aged 16 or 17 under care, supervision or authority, producing child abuse material, possession of child abuse material, power imbalance, teacher student relationship, remorse, engagement in treatment, plea of guilty at earliest opportunity
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View paper →R v Verdins; R v Buckley; R v Vo [2007] VSCA 102 (23 May 2007)
[2007] VSCA 102
austlii.edu.au·2007
CRIMINAL LAW – Sentencing – Restatement of Tsiaras principles – Whether Tsiaras principles limited to "serious psychiatric illness not amounting to mental insanity" – Whether and to what extent general deterrence excluded or modified as sentencing consideration – Whether and to what extent impaired mental functioning may reduce moral culpability of offending conduct – Whether relevant to sentencing that imprisonment would carry serious risk of significant adverse effect on offender’s mental health – R v Tsiaras [1996] VicRp 26; [1996] 1 VR 398 considered.
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View paper →DPP v Sutherland [2025] VCC 1974 (27 January 2026)
[2025] VCC 1974
austlii.edu.au·2026
Catchwords: Sentence – Aggravated burglary – Co-accused – Low mid-range offending – Low to moderate risk of reoffending – Early plea of guilty – Very limited criminal history – Lack of insight – Significant physical and mental illnesses present – Verdins principles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 engaged – Good prospects of rehabilitation
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