The latest Part of the Australian Business Law Review includes an Editorial by Professor Bob Baxt AO. It also contains the following articles: “The Law of Penalties and the Question of Breach” – Anthony Gray; and “Overseas Buybacks on the ASX: Disclosure Requirements and Signalling Impact” – Mark Holub and Jason Mitchell. Also in this Part are the following sections: Competition Law and Market Regulation: “The High Court Decision in ACCC v Flight Centre – Crash Landings Ahead?” – Brent Fisse; and New Zealand Newsletter: “Are Gains to Foreign Owners “Public Benefits” in Authorisation Proceedings under the Commerce Act 1986?” – Rex Ahdar.
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This Part of the Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice includes the following articles: “The long-run efficiency gains in public-to-private transfers – new evidence from earnings announcements” – Paul Docherty and Steve Easton; “Twin peaks – the legal and regulatory anatomy of Australia’s system of financial regulation” – Andrew Godwin and Ian Ramsay; “Debt for equity swaps and corporate restructuring under s 444GA of the Corporations Act” – Ryan J Turner; and “Surcharging for payment: Payment systems regulation and the constitution of a new economic norm” – Ann Wardrop.
Also in this Part are the following sections: Securities and Mortgages; Wealth Management; Recent Publications; United Kingdom and Europe; as well as a Forum piece by Alan O’Sullivan, which provides a practitioner’s market-based perspective to complement the article by Docherty and Easton in this Part.
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The latest Part of the Tort Law Review includes the following articles: “Wilkinson v Downton: New work for an old tort to do?” – Professor Anthony Gray; “The normal measure of damages for tortious damage to chattels under English law” – Dr John Ren; “The tort of intimidation and breach of contract” – Nathan Tamblyn; and “Upkeep claims for wrongful birth, wrongful conception or wrongful fertilisation? IVF mix-up in the Singapore High Court: ACB v Thomson Medical Pte Ltd [2015] SGHC 9” – Ronald JJ Wong.
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The latest Part of the Tort Law Review includes two articles from Natalie Morrison and John Devereux exploring the ethical and legal dimensions of the law which governs the use of tissue or organs donated by one child (“the saviour sibling”) to another, an article by Chris Bailey which analyses what conduct gives rise to liability for inducing or procuring a breach of contract, and an article by Michael D Green and William C Powers Jr explaining the need for and formation of the American Law Institute and traces the development of the torts restatements from 1934 when the first one was completed through to today, explaining the intricate process developed by the ALI for its restatement projects.
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The first Part of Volume 88 of the Australian Law Journal includes the following articles: “Forrest v ASIC: A “perfect storm”” – John Humphrey and Stephen Corones; “Breach ordinarily no bar to termination” – Thomas O’Brien; and “Kable, preventative detention and the dilemmas of Chapter III” – James Stellios. Also in this Part are the following sections: Current Issues; Recent Cases; Conveyancing and Property; Family Law; Personalia; and Book Reviews.
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The last Part for 2013 of the Australian Business Law Review includes four interesting articles. The first article is by Richard Manly SC and discusses the High Court’s reconsideration of the penalty doctrine. The second article comes from Rosemary Teele Langford who looks at the distinction between the duty of care and the duties to act bona fide in the interests of the company and for proper purposes. The third article, by The Hon J D Heydon, sets out the background to litigation in the Federal Court of Australia in which penalties are sought for contravention of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth). The final article is by Rasiah Gengatharen and examines the acquisition of pre-encumbered personal property in the ordinary course of the seller’s business.
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The April 2011 issue of the Building and Construction Law Journal contains articles on rectifying defects in legal doctrine in relation to the repudiation of contracts, a review of the court rules around expert evidence and construction delays. There are also several case reports on relevant building and construction cases.