Mark Thomas discusses the transition to online teaching as well as the High Court's acquittal of George Pell in this interview with Peter Black.
Peter is interviewing QUT staff from the Faculty of Law about how they are surviving through COVID-19. In the third interview in this series, Pete talks to Mark Thomas, a Senior Lecturer in the Law School. This semester Mark is one of the unit coordinators for LLH302 Ethics and the Legal Profession.
Mark talks about moving LLH302 online (at 1:59), working from home (at 6:05), the High Court's judgment in Pell v The Queen (from 9:18), and George Orwell's 1984 (at 35:13))
You can read the piece Mark wrote for The Conversation with Professor Ben Matthews, 'How George Pell won in the High Court on a legal technicality' here: https://theconversation.com/how-george-pell-won-in-the-high…
In discussing the High Court's judgment in Pellv v The Queen, Mark talks about why Pell is the paradigamatic historical sex offence case (at 9:58), the use of the Court of Appeal of the video evidence (at 16:10), whether he regretted using the word 'technicality' in The Conversation (at 20:33), and judge only trials (at 25:31).