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Freedom of Speech Expert Comments on Historic Case of Holocaust Denier

Freedom of Speech Expert Comments on Historic Case of Holocaust Denier


Professor Adrienne Stone, director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, was recently interviewed in relation to the Federal Court trial of holocaust denier Frederic Tobin, who has been sentenced to three months’ jail for contempt of court, the first such case to arise from breaches of federal anti-vilification laws.

To listen to Professor Stone’s interview on the ‘Law Report’, Radio National (Canberra), please click here.

Professor Stone has published extensively on freedom of expression, the legal and institutional questions surrounding bills of rights and on judicial method in constitutional cases. Her recent publications include Hate Speech and Freedom of Speech in Australia (co-edited with Dr Katharine Gelber, Federation Press, 2007) and 'Judicial Review without Rights' (2008) 28 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 1.

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