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Courts & crime, 1988

76 stories in Sydney's papers · page 3 of 4

BACKGROUND No `Statute of Limitations' for mass murder

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 17 June 1988 · page 2

Peter Ryan, in the Australian Financial Review of June 1, and Michael Barnard, in The Age of June 7, both respected columnists, chose to address themselves to the issue of war crimes…

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Court awards adopted girl to natural parents Kidnapped child to return to Brazil

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 24 June 1988 · page 4

The verdict registered slowly on the faces of the Brazilian couple who had regained their kidnapped baby and of the Israeli father, who…

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Murder marks ugly escalation in uprising

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 30 June 1988 · page 1

The cold blooded murder of an Israeli farmer at a cooperative settlement within the pre-1967 borders last week marked a significant escalation in the Palestinian uprising…

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Murder of Aborigine alleged

Tribune · Wednesday 6 July 1988 · page 12

WEST AUSTRALIA: Murder allegations have been made against one or more prison officers during the current Royal Commission into…

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Jerusalem man killed by police after four-hour rooftop siege

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 22 July 1988 · page 2

The brothers of a Jerusalem man who holed up on the roof of his apartment building with an M-16 rifle for four hours Friday night…

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Court rules: TV licence fee must be paid, despite strikes

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 22 July 1988 · page 4

TEL AVIV — the Tel Aviv Magistrates’ Court last Thursday ruled that the television and radio licence fee is a payment for services rendered, not…

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Strip-search assault

Tribune · Wednesday 27 July 1988 · page 9

Martina Anderson and Ella O'Dwyer, Irish Republican prisoners, were strip-searched more than 800 times while on…

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Clerks leadership in court battle

Tribune · Wednesday 27 July 1988 · page 4

The rightwing federal leadership of the clerks union (FCU) won't accept the umpire's decision -- or, more appropriately, the union…

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NEWS Vanuatu crisis grows as court decides

Tribune · Wednesday 3 August 1988 · page 3

A tropical downpour washed out independence celebrations in Vanuatu's capital Vila last weekend, also helping to dampen…

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Far Cry From Double Bay Deli to Nsw Supreme Court Bar

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 5 August 1988 · page 9

IT TOOK Barry Milch, 54, of Castle Cove, almost 40 years to realise his dream of becoming a solicitor. Recently admitted to the Bar by…

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Lini claims victory after court decision

Tribune · Wednesday 10 August 1988 · page 5

Last week's decision of the Supreme Court of Vanuatu to uphold the legality of the parliamentary sitting boycotted by half the MPs took many…

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Hotel theft can ruin your holiday

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 12 August 1988 · page 31

GETTING robbed at a hotel is a harrowing, unpleasant experience. Although it is many years since this…

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Settler charged

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 19 August 1988 · page 2

Pinhas Walterstcm, ft, 01 Ofra, chairman of the Binyamin regional council, has been charged with manslaughter and…

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Former Nazi sentenced

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 19 August 1988 · page 13

BONN: Manfred Poehlig, a former member of a Nazi police battalion, has been convicted of war crimes and crimes against…

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Appeal lodged in call for mercy-death of Tay-Sachs infant Court rejects mother’s euthanasia plea

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 19 August 1988 · page 7

The Tel Aviv District Court has dismissed out of hand a mother’s application for an injuction barring the Rebecca Sieff Hospital in Safad…

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Blacks and police tactical over-response

Tribune · Wednesday 31 August 1988 · page 3

An officer from the Aboriginal Legal Service (ASL), Redfern (NSW), was arrested early last Saturday morning when he tried to intervene in a confrontation between police and residents. The confrontation took place after police entered the mainly Aboriginal…

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Police abuses: the warrior of coexistence is worried

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 2 September 1988 · page 3

WHEN RIOTING broke out eight months ago in the city where he has devoted his life to promoting Jewish-Arab coexistence, Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek had a dual attitude…

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Police watch as Maccabi wins vital soccer match

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 2 September 1988 · page 48

TWELVE POLICE officers watched NSW Maccabi Soccer team defeat Ashour Star 3-2 at Fairfield on Sunday in a NSW…

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Police seize heroin at Ben-Gurion and Amsterdam airports Five held for drug smuggling

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 2 September 1988 · page 6

Seventeen kilograms of pure heroin have been seized at Amsterdam and Ben-Gurion airports and five suspected members of an Israeli…

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'Peace police' get a police warning

Tribune · Wednesday 14 September 1988 · page 12

In the photo above a street theatre group (of peace police?) get a warning from coppers to "move along" at a recent peace rally in Fremantle…

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