Law Report - Full program podcast

The Victorian Law Reform Commission is currently looking at the state's laws around funeral and burial instructions.

From the capital offence of stealing food to property rights and cases involving swine, an insight into how the First Fleeters managed to create what is now considered 'the land of the fair go'.

New research has found that many interpreters across all sectors, including the justice system, experience what's known as 'vicarious trauma' as a result of their work.

Hundreds of Americans have anonymously confessed to a range of crimes as part of Emily Baxter's project We Are All Criminals.

Comedians Paul McDermott and Tim Ferguson reveal some of their past 'criminal behaviour'.

A proposal from the Law Institute of Victoria seeks minor convictions declared 'spent' after ten years.

A panel of experts, including a former undercover policeman debate some of the legal and ethical minefields of the long term undercover police operation.

Magna Carta has been cited in a surprising array of legal and political matters in Australia, from colonial times to the present day.

Damien Carrick tours the British Library's exhibition Magna Carta: Law, Liberty, Legacy. He discovers 800 years of surprising artefacts, and a rich legacy that still influences modern democracy.

Canadian journalist and author Ann Walmsley discusses her experience choosing books for correctional institutions for the charity Book Clubs for Inmates.