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- Title
'OUT OF GRACE': INEQUITY IN POST-EXONERATION REMEDIES FOR WRONGFUL CONVICTION.
- Authors
DIOSO-VILLA, RACHEL
- Abstract
The article focuses on the inequity in post-exoneration remedies for wrongful conviction. Topics discussed include compensation remedies available to exonerees in Australia with a focus on ex gratia payments, the circumstances in which ex gratia payments were awarded and denied for wrongful conviction and the role of the state in providing compensation for errors of justice as a moral and legal duty. It offers suggestions to improve the situation for the wrongfully convicted in Australia.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; EXONERATION; ACTUAL innocence; COMPENSATION (Law); JUDICIAL error; JURISDICTION
- Publication
University of New South Wales Law Journal, 2014, Vol 37, Issue 1, p349
- ISSN
0313-0096
- Publication type
Article