Eastman v The ACT

[2019] ACTSC 280

Supreme Court of the ACT14 October 2019

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1. Civil Procedure
2. › Claim for compensation after plaintiff was convicted and imprisoned for murder in 1995
3. › conviction was quashed in 2014
4. › civil proceedings stayed in 2016
5. › plaintiff re-tried in 2018
6. › plaintiff acquitted
7. › civil proceedings revived
1. Human Rights
2. › Miscarriage of Justice
3. › wrongful conviction and unlawful detention
4. › Right to liberty and security of person
5. › Compensation for wrongful conviction
1. Compensation
2. › QUANTUM
3. › Entitlement to and Assessment of compensation
4. › Right to compensation
5. › act of grace payment
6. › ex gratia payment
7. › public law damages
1. Statutes
2. › INTERPRETATION
3. › Human Rights Act 2004 (ACT) s 23
4. › meaning of ‘reversed’
5. › whether or not the plaintiff’s conviction was reversed
6. › whether or not there was a miscarriage of justice
7. › Financial Management Act 1996 (ACT)
8. › whether or not it provides for the compensation dictated by the Human Rights Act 2004 (ACT)