EnhanceTV Legal Studies Highlights RSS Feed http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvhighlights/?category=56 Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:54:13 1000 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/displaytv.php?RecordId=103529 Robert Freegard harboured the fantasy of a life of international espionage, so he created a false identity, brainwashing innocent victims and convincing them that he was working for the British intelligence services to root out an IRA cell. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/displaytv.php?RecordId=144422 In 2004, the board of the public school in Dover, Pennsylvania ordered science teachers to read a statement to high school biology students suggesting that that is an alternative to Darwin's theory of evolution called intelligent design - the idea that life is too complex to have evolved naturally and therefore must have been designed by an intelligent agent. The teachers refused to comply. Later, parents opposed to intelligent design filed a lawsuit in US federal court accusing the school board of violating the constitutional separation of church and state. Judgement Day: Intelligent Design on Trial follows the federal case of Kitzmiller v. Dover School District and features trial re-enactments based on court transcripts and interviews with key participants, including expert scientists and Dover parents, teachers, and town officials. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/displaytv.php?RecordId=144423 In November 1945, in the German city of Nuremberg, the victors of the Second World War began the first international war crimes trial. The choice of the city was significant as it was here that the National Socialist Party held its annual rallies. The 21 defendants came from very different background. Some, like Hitler's chosen successor Hermann Goering, were senior politicians - their responsibility clear. Others were there because senior party leaders Heinrich Himmler, head of the feared SS, and Joseph Goebbels, head of propaganda - had killed themselves rather than face capture and trial. Their deputies or juniors stood on trial instead of them. But most of them were regarded by the western public, rightly or wrongly, as key playmakers in a system that had brought war to Europe and cost the lives of 50 million people. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/displaytv.php?RecordId=103578 On December 2, 2005 Van Nguyen, a 24-year-old Australian, was hanged by the state of Singapore for trafficking 400 grams of heroin. Van was the first Australian to be executed in many years. His story captured a nation and flooded news outlets across the country. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/displaytv.php?RecordId=107029 One of Sydney's best known and most colourful barristers is profiled on Australian Story this week. Charles Waterstreet, also a film producer, writer and partner of a string of glamorous women, reveals that he battled depression and alcoholism for many years. He suffered a nervous breakdown in 1996 after being sued by his former partner, actress Kate Fitzpatrick, over a property dispute. After recovering, he used his legal skills to investigate the death of his mother in 1967, an event that scarred him.