JOURNAL OF CIVIL LITIGATION AND PRACTICE
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS for Special Issue on the 10th Anniversary of the Victorian Civil Procedure Act 2010
The Civil Procedure Act 2010 (Vic) was enacted 10 years ago and commenced operation on 1 January 2011. It was an Act aimed at reforming and modernising the laws, practice, procedure and culture for the resolution of civil disputes in Victoria. The Editors invite submissions on the ground-breaking reforms encapsulated in the State of Victoria’s Civil Procedure Act.

Public Law Review update: Vol 31 Pt 1
The latest Part of the Public Law Review includes the following content:
Editorial; Keynote Lecture: “Engineers: The Drama of Its Day in the Climate of Its Era” – Stephen Gageler AC; Comments: “Has Engineers Passed Its Use-by Date?” – Jeffrey Goldsworthy; “Engineers’ Problematic Comparative Legacy” – William Partlett; “Engineers and Persistent Constitutional Dissent” – Andrew Lynch; the following Articles: “Spence v Queensland and the Federal Balance: How Many Swallows Make a Summer?” – Nicholas Aroney; “The Engineers’ Case and Intergovernmental Immunities: A Century On” – Stephen Donaghue QC and Christine Ernst; “Impairment and Limited State Immunity” – David Tan; “Engineers and Constitution-building” – Cheryl Saunders AO and Michael Crommelin AO; Book Review: “A Tribute to Australia’s Killer of “Living Constitutionalism” and “Common Law Constitutionalism”, by Lisa Burton Crawford, Patrick Emerton and Dale Smith (eds)” – Reviewed by James Allan; and Developments.

Public Law Review update: Vol 30 Pt 4
The latest Part of the Public Law Review includes the following content: Comments: “Of Lonely Ghosts: The Primacy of Responsible Government in Comcare v Banerji” – Patrick Graham; “Momentum on Variable Standards of Review in New Zealand” – M B Rodriguez Ferrere; “Launching “Jesting Pilate””; “”Jesting Pilate” Third Edition Launch, Supreme Court of Victoria Law Library, 24 June 2019″ – Michael Crommelin; “”Jesting Pilate” Third Edition Launch, Banco Court, Supreme Court of New South Wales, 31 July 2019″ – Murray Gleeson; the following Articles: “Immaterial Errors, Jurisdictional Errors and the Presumptive Limits of Executive Power” – Lisa Burton Crawford; “Non-Compellable Powers: A Relational Analysis” – Kristen Rundle; “The Development of Native Title: Opening Our Eyes to Shared History” – Justice Michelle Gordon; Book Review: “The Purpose of Administrative Law and the Legitimacy of Administrative Government, by Jerry L Mashaw” – Reviewed by Leighton McDonald; and Developments.

Public Law Review update: Vol 30 Pt 3
The latest Part of the Public Law Review includes the following content: Editorial; Comments: “Sir Anthony Mason in Hong Kong: A Contribution to Public Law” – Hon William Gummow NPJ; “Senate Committee Report on Parliamentary Scrutiny of Delegated Legislation” – Stephen Argument; “Minister for Immigration and Border Protection v SZMTA [2019] HCA 3” – Loretta Foran; the following Articles: “Disclosure, Not Disqualification: A Democratic Proposal to Promote the Fidelity of Elected Representatives to the People” – Matthew Stubbs and Adam Webster; “The Injunction in Section 75(v) of the Constitution” – Daniel Reynolds; “The Executive Power to Withdraw from Treaties in Australia” – Luke Chircop and Timothy Higgins; Book Review: “Military Law in Australia, by Robin Creyke, Dale Stephens and Peter Sutherland” – Reviewed by Samuel C Duckett White; and Developments.

Public Law Review update: Vol 30 Pt 2
The latest Part of the Public Law Review includes the following content: Comments: “Failing the Civilian Response? Defence Amendment (Call Out of the ADF) Act 2018 (Cth)” – Greg Carne; “Marijuana, Strawberries and Hot Air Balloons: The Expressive Function of Federal Criminal Law” – Julian R Murphy; “Unions NSW v New South Wales (No 2)” – Anne Twomey; the following Articles: “The Amenability of Private School Decisions to Judicial Review” – James J Anson-Holland; “How and When Can a Constitutionally Valid Statute Become Invalid?” – Ben Ye; “Minority Government and the Validity of Standing Order Requirements for Absolute Majority Votes” – Anne Twomey; and Developments.
Public Law Review update: Vol 30 Pt 1
The latest Part of the Public Law Review includes the following content: Comments: “Prisoner Voting in New Zealand’s Supreme Court” – Andrew Geddis; “Declarations of Inconsistency Under the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990” – Philip A Joseph; “Breaking the Silence: New Zealand’s Courts and Parliament after Attorney-General v Taylor” – Léonid Sirota; the following Articles: “The Centrality of Jurisdictional Error: Rationale and Consequences” – Lisa Burton Crawford and Janina Boughey; “Popular Sovereignty, ‘the People’ and the Australian Constitution: A Historical Reassessment” – Benjamin B Saunders and Simon P Kennedy; “Res Judicata at the Administrative Appeals Tribunal: Re-opening the Case” – Matthew Paterson; and Developments.
Public Law Review update: Vol 29 Pt 4
The latest Part of the Public Law Review includes the following content: Comments: “The Imperative of Process in the Australian Republic Debate” – Gabrielle Appleby; “The Legislative Council and Cabinet Documents – A Comment on Egan v Chadwick” – Tom Chisholm; “Forum of Choice? The Legislative Impact of the Parliamentary Joint Committee of Intelligence and Security” – Sarah Moulds; and the following Articles: “Arbitration of Treaty of Waitangi Settlement Cross-Claim Disputes” – Amokura Kawharu; “Anti-democratic Political Parties as a Threat to Democracy: Models of Reaction and the Strategic Democracy” – Antonios Kouroutakis; “‘Silent Members of Society’?: Public Servants and the Freedom of Political Communication in Australia” – Kieran Pender; Book review: “The Constitution of the Environmental Emergency” – reviewed by Benjamin J Richardson; and Developments.
Public Law Review update: Vol 29 Pt 3
The latest Part of the Public Law Review includes the following content: Comments: “‘Unison, the Parole Board and Principle of Legality'” – John Basten; “The Unison Case: A New High-Water Mark” – Richard Rawlings; “Conceptualising the Principle(s) of Legality” – Jason NE Varuhas; the following Articles: “Party-hopping Deja vu: Changing Politics, Changing Law in New Zealand 1999–2018” – Caroline Morris; “Two Reflections on Retrospectivity in Statutory Interpretation” – Dan Meagher; “Rethinking the Henry VIII Clause in New Zealand” – Sean Brennan; Book Review: “Religious Freedom and the Australian Constitution – Origins and Future” reviewed by Mitchell Landrigan; and Developments.
Public Law Review update: Vol 31 Pt 3
The latest Part of the Public Law Review includes the following content: Comments: “The Power(Lessness) of New Zealand’s House of Representatives to Summon The Crown’s Legal Advice” – Graeme Edgeler and Andrew Geddis; “Borrowdale v Director-General of Health: An Unlawful but Justified National Lockdown” – M B Rodriguez Ferrere; “”We are not Epidemiologists”: COVID-19 in the High Court” – Amelia Simpson; the following Articles: “The Evolving Role of History in Constitutional Interpretation” – Stephen Donaghue QC and Thomas Wood; “From Disruption to Deliberation: Improving the Quality and Impact of Community Engagement with Parliamentary Law-making” – Sarah Moulds; “Examining Digital Campaigning Through the Normative Framework Underpinning Election Law – The Rationale and Challenges of Regulation” – Amy Chinnappa; “Empowering Joint Commonwealth – State Royal Commissions through a National Applied Law” – Ben Fraser; Book Reviews: “The Constitution and Government of Australia, 1788 to 1919”, by William Pitt Cobbett and Anne Twomey (eds) – Reviewed by Clare Langford; “The Veiled Sceptre: The Dismissal of Governments”, by Anne Twomey – Reviewed by Bharan Narula; and Developments.