Australian Intellectual Property Journal update: Vol 27 Pt 2
The latest Part of the Australian Intellectual Property Journal includes the following content: “Whose Fair Dealing? Third-Party Reliance on the Fair Dealing Exception for Parody or Satire” – Jani McCutcheon and Simon Holloway; “The Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers Rights Act 2001 (In) and New Plant Varieties, Extant Varieties and Farmers’ Varieties: A New Form of Property?” – Emma Trustum-Behan and Charles Lawson; “Some Observations on Trans-Tasman Trade Mark Law” – Paul Sumpter.
Environmental and Planning Law Journal update: Vol 34 Pt 1
This Part of the Environmental and Planning Law Journal includes the following articles: “Towards an international emissions trading scheme: Legal specification of tradeable emissions entitlements” – Hope Johnson, Pamela O’Connor, Bill Duncan and Sharon Christensen; “Commissions and inquiries into the nuclear fuel cycle: Public participation and attitudes to risk and process” – Simon Marsden; “Victorian ecologically sustainable forest management: Part I – Sustainability and regulatory theory” – Rhett Martin; “Risk-based regulation: Examination of the adoption of risk-based regulation reforms in Western Australia” – Eleanor Stoney; and Comment: “The war on solar and wind: Australian renewable energy policy” – Kate McCallum.
Building and Construction Law Journal update: December 2016
The latest Part of the Building and Construction Law Journal includes the following article: “Expert Determination – The Peter Pan of ADR? Challenges to the Expert Determination Process and Practical Insights for Its Use” – Leigh Duthie. Also in this Part is an Editorial; and the following case Reports: RCR O’Donnell Griffin Pty Ltd v Forge Group Power Pty Ltd (Receivers and Managers Appointed) (in liq) & Ors [2016] QCA 214; and The Owners – Strata Plan No 77475 v Walker Group Constructions Pty Ltd & Anor [2016] NSWSC 1127.
Journal of Judicial Administration update: Vol 26 Pt 1
The latest Part of the Journal of Judicial Administration includes the following articles: “Judges and community engagement: An institutional obligation” – Sam Bookman; “Questioning the evidence: A case for best-practice models of interviewing in the Refugee Review Tribunal” – Jessica Findling and Georgina Heydon; “Is the representative nature of juries justiciable?” – Anthony Gray; and “Four recent decisions on sentencing Aboriginal people” – Christopher J Charles.

Congratulations to Justices Kiefel and Edelman
Thomson Reuters offers its warmest congratulations to the Hon Justice Susan Kiefel AC on her appointment as Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia, and to the Hon Justice James Edelman on his appointment to the Court. Their Honours will begin their terms in the Court’s first sitting of 2017. Both are exceptional appointments. Justice Kiefel’s ...more