Ms Kellie Toole

Biography/ Background

I joined the permanent staff of the Adelaide Law School in 2012. I teach in: 

       Clinical Legal Education

       Evidence Law

       Criminal Law and Procedure

My interest in both legal practice and research is at the intersection of criminal law and human rights law. I worked with legal aid criminal clients in private practice and for the Legal Services Commission of SA in 2008 and 2009.

I was a researcher with the Mullighan Parliamentary Inquiry into child sexual abuse on the APY Lands in 2007 and 2008.

In 2006 I interned at the Gulf Region Advocacy Center (GRACE) in Houston Texas, through a placement with Reprieve Australia. This involved working with lawyers to represent poor people facing the death penalty.

I am always happy to chat about any of my teaching or research interests or work experience so feel free to give me a call or drop me an email.

Qualifications

Bachelor of Arts (Honours)

Master of Arts (History)

Bachelor of Law and Legal Practice (Honours) (University Medal)

Research Interests

Rape (especially marital rape), murder, defences to homicide, domestic violence offences

Publications

'Self-Defence and the Reasonable Woman: Equality Before the New Victorian Law' (2012) 36 Melbourne University Law Review 251.

 

'Retrospectivity and Human Rights in R v P, GA: Marital Rape in South Australia' (2011) 35(4) Criminal Law Journal 237.

*These papers are available at Social Sciences Research  Network   (SSRN): http://ssrn.com/author=1687140* 

 

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'Evidence (Identification) Bill 2012 (SA)' (2013) 38(1) Down Under All Over, Alternative Law Journal

 

 

'Three Plead Guilty to Bestiality Offences' (2012) 37(4) Down Under All Over, Alternative Law Journal

 

 

'Marital Rape: High Court Decision Handed Down' (2012) 37(3) Down Under All Over, Alternative Law Journal

 

 

'Evidence (Discreditable Conduct) Amendment Act 2011 (SA)' (2011) 36(4) Down Under All Over, Alternative Law Journal (with David Caruso)

 

 

'Rape in Marriage in South Australian Law: Return to the 1960s?' (2011) 36(3) Brief, Alternative Law Journal

 

 

'Law Institute for South Australia' (2011) 36(1) Down Under All Over, Alternative Law Journal

 

 

Professional Associations

South Australian Convenor for the Alternative Law Journal

Member, Law Society's Mental Health and Well-Being Committee

Member, Law Society's Criminal Law Committee

 

Recent Media

Public Law Research Community, 'Panic About the "Gay Panic" Defence - SA Reform to Provocation Proposed' 22 May 2013

Public Law Research Community, 'The Flip Side of Double Jeopardy - Australian First for Prisoners' Right to Appeal' 4 April 2013

Public Law Research Community, 'End of the Line for Police ‘Line-ups’ in South Australia? 21 March 2013

Today Tonight, Interview with Francesca Belperio, 'Court Enforcement Fees' 24 January 2013

InDaily, 'Startling Trend Shifts Power from Judiciary to Police' (on court enforcement fees) 23 January 2013

InDaily, 'Police get their Way after Opposition Backflip' (on Evidence (Identification) Amendment Bill 2011) 17 October 2012

The Punch, 'Pepper Spray: A Means of Self-Defence?' 3 October 2012

IntLawGrrls: Voices on International Law, Policy, Practice, 'Reconsidering the Marital Rape Immunity' 24 August 2012

ABC Radio National PM, 'Man Can be Tried for Decades-Old Rape in Marriage' 30 May 2012

ABC TV News, 'Man Loses High Court Rape-in-Marriage Appeal' 30 May 2012

Saturday Afternoon Talkback, FIVEaa Adelaide, Death Penalty and Human Rights in the United States, 11 October 2009

The Adelaide Review, 'The Quality of Mercy', cover story on death penalty internship, October 2009

Files

• The Quality of Mercy - Adelaide_Review.pdf [478.5K] (application/pdf)

Expertise for Media Contact

Categories	Law, crime and justice
Expertise	criminal law; domestic violence; self-defence; rape; homicide; human rights; evidence law

Entry last updated: Wednesday, 22 May 2013