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Here is a selection of my publications. Click on the title to view the whole text, or chose a category on the left.

• Mum's trial by terror
  16.06.2001
  By: Tony Koch A DISGRACEFUL outrage has been committed by a Queensland Government bureaucracy on an already traumatised Gold Coast mother and her young children. As reported today, the Mental Health Tribunal's Patient Review Tribunal has... read more
• Tougher test for `insane' killers
  11.10.1999
  By: Tony Koch VICIOUS killers and rapists who escape trial by claiming insanity will face tougher scrutiny under a new Mental Health Act. The legislation replaces the existing Mental Health Tribunal with a Mental Health Court which will... read more
• DO JUDGES REALLY KNOW BETTER?
  22.07.1999
  David Solomon contributing editor JUSTICE Richard Chesterman is among a small number of Australian judges who believe that judges rather than juries should assess medical evidence in criminal cases. Last week Justice Chesterman, in the course of a... read more
• TRIBUNAL IS INNOVATIVE
  16.07.1999
  By: RICHARD CHESTERMAN On Tuesday The Courier-Mail reported the distress of Robyn Clarke whose 17-year-old daughter Janaya, was fatally stabbed last year on the Gold Coast. The Queensland Mental Health Tribunal has ruled that Janaya's killer... read more
• ELITISM NO ANSWER TO JUSTICE
  16.07.1999
  Elitism no answer to question of justice Tony Koch chief reporter JUSTICE Richard Chesterman's defence of the Mental Health Tribunal's handling of Claude John Gabriel, who stabbed teenager Janaya Clarke to death last year, is a welcome... read more
• LAW LETS KILLER ESCAPE TRIAL
  13.07.1999
  Law lets killer escape trial Tony Koch chief reporter THE distraught mother of a 17-year-old girl brutally stabbed to death on the Gold Coast late last year has blasted the Queensland justice system which will ensure her daughter's killer never... read more
• Laws fail the Bryant test
  14.06.1997
  By; Tony KOCH IT IS now history that Martin Bryant pleaded guilty to killing 35 innocent people at Port Arthur last year. Does anyone believe that a psychiatric examination of Bryant would have returned a result other than that he was ``of... read more