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The Wigs

Minnimal Productions

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Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/27d. Total Eps: 81

The Wigs is a weekly-ish podcast exploring and interrogating contemporary legal issues in and out of the court room. The first and only podcast (so far) featuring practising barristers talking shop. Join Emmanuel Kerkyasharian, Felicity Graham, Stephen Lawrence and Jim Minns as they deep dive into the scenarios and outcomes that make up our legal system.

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🇬🇧 Great Britain - News Commentary
10/07/2025
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Cannabis, Politics and Ivan Milat Theories: A Long Chat With Jeremy Buckingham MLC

Season 8 · Episode 4

Friday, July 4, 2025 • Duration 02:13:07

In this episode, two Members of the Legislative council, our own Stephen Lawrence and the Honourable Jeremy Buckingham MLC, Legalise Cannabis Party, sit down for a long chat. Felicity is present for the beginning of the chat, but had to depart, leaving the two MLC's to do what MLC's do best, talk a lot.

The conversation begins with some law reform legislation that Jeremy is advocating for, but then moves on to a discussion of Jeremy's fascinating life and political story, including the brutal political battle that led him to leave the Greens as a first-term MP. It concludes with a discussion of the work Jeremy is doing to expose what he believes is the truth about serial killer Ivan Milat.

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The Mokbel Appeal

Season 8 · Episode 3

Friday, May 2, 2025 • Duration 47:22

In this episode, the Wigs discuss the decision in Mokbel v The King [2024] VSC 725, in which questions relating to an appeal by Antonious Mokbel arising out of the Gobbo saga in Victoria were determined by Justice Fullerton.

Shortly after the Wigs recorded this episode, the Victorian Court of Appeal granted Mokbel bail pending determination of his appeal, citing the findings made in the reference favourable to Mokbel and finding that there were exceptional circumstances justifying the grant of bail.

Not long after he was granted bail, the Victorian DPP announced they were appealing the decision discussed in this episode.

The long saga continues…

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Trying Historic Abuse Claims Without the Accused

Season 8 · Episode 2

Monday, March 31, 2025 • Duration 40:00

In this episode the Wigs discuss a trio of recent high court decisions that deal with a pretty new question, when can a civil claim for sexual abuse said to have occured many decades ago be fairly tried, even when the alleged assailant has died and much related evidence lost. This question has emerged following the abolition by state parliaments of statutes of limitation, that previously prevented such "historical" claims from being advanced. The discussion touches on a number of fundamental legal questions including what is a fair trial, what is abuse of process and how and when can the parliament legislate to effectively alter these principles. The cases discussed are Willmot v The State of Queensland [2024] HCA 42, RC v The Salvation Army (Western Australia) Property Trust [2024] HCA 43 and GLJ v The Trustees of the Roman Catholic Church for the Diocese of Lismore[2023] HCA 32. Now,

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Proactive Policing: The Wigs Interview Journalist Paul Farrell

Season 8 · Episode 1

Wednesday, February 26, 2025 • Duration 27:39

In this episode - Wigs Felicity and Emmanuel speak with journalist Paul Farrell about proactive policing particularly stop and search practices within the NSW Police Force.

Paul is an investigative reporter who has worked at the ABC, the Guardian and Buzzfeed News, breaking major national and international stories. He led the Guardian's Nauru files reporting team, which published thousands of pages of leaked documents from Australia's offshore detention regime and won a number of journalism awards.

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Final Episode of the Year - Answering YOUR Questions (Part 2)

Season 7 · Episode 11

Wednesday, December 18, 2024 • Duration 39:45

Our final episode for 2024!

This is part 2 of our speed round - answering your questions!

If you have a question for the Wigs, feel free to shout out to us on
Facebook. And don’t forget to rate, review and subscribe to the podcast.

Have a happy and safe holiday break and new year to all our lovely, loyal listeners. We love you!

Jim, Flic, Manny and Steve.

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End of Year Special! Answering Listener Questions!

Season 7 · Episode 10

Wednesday, November 27, 2024 • Duration 55:56

As a finale for 2024, the Wigs took listener questions and answered them in a speed
round. This is Part 1 of the speed round covering a range of topics from the right to
disconnect as an employee, to the Disability Royal Commission recommendations,
the age of criminal responsibility and the use of good character evidence in sentence
proceedings. If you have a question for the Wigs, feel free to shout out to us on
Facebook. And don’t forget to rate, review and subscribe to the podcast.

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Stephen interviews Ghassan Kassisieh (law, politics & a few things in between)

Season 7 · Episode 9

Monday, October 28, 2024 • Duration 01:46:43

In this episode Stephen sits down for a wide ranging chat with Barrister Ghassan Kassisieh. The discussion is lengthy and covers lgbt rights, international politics, refugees, the politicisation of gay rights in the Israeli / Palestinian conflict and comparative law, among other things. Ghassan is a Barrister at 12 Wentworth Selbourne chambers in Sydney after being called to the Bar in September 2024. He has a public and commercial law practice. Ghassan was previously Legal Director at Equality Australia where his legal policy advocacy contributed to over 16 LGBTIQ+ legislative reforms, including Australia’s first scheme regulating medical procedures performed on intersex people without capacity to consent.
Ghassan also has over 13 years’ experience working as a solicitor in commercial litigation and regulatory matters at Gilbert + Tobin in Sydney and Freshfields in London. We hope you enjoy the chat!

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The Knitting Nanas take on Anti-Protest Laws and Win

Season 7 · Episode 8

Tuesday, October 1, 2024 • Duration 56:00

It’s not every day of the week that a law is struck down as unconstitutional but that’s exactly what happened in the case of the Knitting Nanas against the State of NSW. Two Knitting Nanas Helen Kvelde and Dominique Jacobs with the help of the Environmental Defenders Office launched a constitutional challenge to s 214A of the Crimes Act 1900 that criminalised certain conduct such as remaining “near” any part of a “major facility” (such as Town Hall or Martin Place Station) if that conduct “causes persons attempting to use the major facility to be redirected”, or if that conduct caused “partial closure” of the major facility, on the basis it impermissibly burdens the implied freedom of political communication. Reacting to the win, Knitting Nana Helen Kvelde said “We are happy the court has given some acknowledgement to the democratic right to protest. But these laws to me feel like a distraction. As if both Labor and the Liberal Party are trying to get the population angry with protesters instead of angry against politicians for failing to protect us from climate emergency. I’m not sure what we can do next, but it doesn’t feel right to just let this go. We need to fight for our democratic right to protest peacefully. I wish people would understand that ultimately these laws could affect anyone – anyone the government of the day does not like.”

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Is the Trump prosecution really a 'political witch hunt'? Many say yes, Judge says no

Season 7 · Episode 7

Tuesday, August 13, 2024 • Duration 46:02

In this episode the wigs analyse the latest judgment in the federal prosecution of donald trump, in which the trial judge soundly rejected his application to terminate the prosecution on the basis that the biden administration is targeting him in a selective and vindictive manner. Judge Chutkan in rejecting the application also refused the former president discovery of documents in support of his application on the basis it was not supported by sufficiently cogent evidence. The Wigs in analysing the case compare the basis on which a political prosecution can be terminated in the USA with Australia and discuss cases here that have featured somewhat similar issues.

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The Legal Requirements On Police To Consider Alternatives To Arrest

Season 7 · Episode 6

Wednesday, July 17, 2024 • Duration 57:38

In this episode the wigs discuss a new police powers decision, Julie Bugmy v NSW Director of Public Prosecutions 2024 NSWCA 70, a recent decision of the NSW Court of Appeal. It concerns the law applicable when police arrest a person believed to have breached a condition of a grant of bail. Wig Stephen Lawrence actually appeared in the matter, instructed by his old employer the Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT way back when it began in 2022 in the local court in Broken Hill before Magistrate Trad and the episode begins with a re-enactment of Stephen's short cross-examination of the main witness. The issues focused on in the cross-examination proved to be decisive in the appeal and concerned the legal requirements on police to consider certain circumstances and alternatives to arrest before arresting a person for breach of bail.

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