The 40th anniversary of the Federal Court of Australia looks back to insights provided by The Australian Law Journal and other significant legal records and writings.
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The latest Part of the Australian GST Journal includes the following content: Editorial: “Sooner or later, everything old is new again”; Article: “Justice Edmonds and interpretation of Australia’s GST legislation” – Richard Krever and Jonathan Teoh and GST Update: “The GST treatment of bodies corporate in New Zealand: uncertainty, change and leaky buildings” – Zena Razoki.
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The latest Part of the Australian Law Journal includes the following articles: “Equal justice and cultural diversity: The general meets the particular” – Chief Justice Robert French AC; “The United Nations report on North Korea and the Security Council: Interface of security and human rights” – Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG; and “Magna Carta in Australia 1803-2015: Law and myth” – David Clark. Also in this Part are the following sections: Current Issues; Conveyancing and Property; Family Law, Around the Nation: Vic; Environmental Law; Human Rights; Competition and Consumer Law, Admiralty and Maritime; Recent Cases; and a Book Review.
Posted in Australian Law Journal, The (ALJ), Update Summaries | Tagged Acting Justice Peter W Young AO, Admiralty and Maritime, ALJ, Anthony Dickey QC, Around the Nation: Vic, Australian arbitration regime, Australian Consumer Law review, book review, building defects, certificate of advice, Chief Justice Robert French AC, competition and consumer law, contract, Conveyancing and property, corporations law, cultural diversity, Current issues, David Clark, disclosure of shareholder email address, Dr Damien J Cremean, enforcing security, environmental law, environmental policy, equal justice, family law, Federal Court, financial agreement, fraud, Full Court, General Editor of ALJ, High Court, Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, human rights, Justice Clyde Croft, Justice Rachel Pepper, King Richard III, law reporting, Magna Carta, mortgagee's motive, Murphy inquiry, passing off, Peter Butt, Recent cases, reinterment, relief against forfeiture, reputation in England, rescission, right to liberty, Robert Baxt AO, role of court, salvage, Security Council, Simon Rice, social engineer, specialist courts, standing for injunction, standing under ADJR Act, State-wide mining assessment policy (NSW), terms contracts, trustee de son tort, United Nations report on North Korea, will construction |
The latest Part of PLR includes the following Comments: “Future challenges on the path to constitutional recognition of Indigenous peoples” – Megan Davis; “Dedicated Indigenous representation in New Zealand’s Parliament” – Andrew Geddis; the following Speech: “The changing character of judicial review in Australia: The legacy of Marbury v Madison?” – Ronald Sackville AO QC; and the following articles: “The Constitution and its common law background” – Jeffrey Goldsworthy; and “Dual federal and State judicial appointments: An Australian impossibility?” – Sarah Murray. There is also a book review and a developments section.
Posted in Public Law Review (PLR), Update Summaries | Tagged Andrew Geddis, book review, Comments, common law, Constitution, developments, Federal Court, Indigenous peoples, Jeffrey Goldsworthy, judicial appointments, judicial review, Marbury v Madison, Megan Davis, New Zealand's Parliament, Padraig McAuliffe, PLR, Ronald Sackville AO QC, Sarah Murray, State Supreme Court |
Thomson Reuters is pleased to announce the appointment of The Hon Justice Melissa Perry as the Section Editor for a brand new Administrative Law Section in The Australian Law Journal. As part of a reinvigoration program, a range of new Sections are being commissioned to ensure that subscribers are receiving a wide range of valuable and ...more
(Published in The Last Word, Vol 3 Pt 4 (Dec 2012) of Workplace Review) By Jeffrey Phillips SC opportunistic disintermediation … the middle man’s risk of being cut out. (Perram J in Informax International Pty Ltd v Clarius Group Ltd (2011) 192 FCR 210 at [25]) The Full Court of the Federal Court has revisited on ...more
(Published in Focus On: Victoria, Vol 3 Pt 4 (Dec 2012) of Workplace Review) By Steven Moore, Barrister In August-September 2012, Victoria was the epicentre of the industrial confrontation which occurred between the CFMEU and the Grocon companies. Although that confrontation was played out at a number of sites in Victoria and elsewhere, its dramatic focus was at ...more
The latest Part of the Journal of Civil Litigation and Practice publishes the following articles: “Federal court practice and changes in discovery” – Hon Justice Bruce Lander; “Judiciary Act 1903 (Cth), s 79 – State law in federal jurisdiction” – Judge DJ McGill SC; “On proprietary trespass: The availability and application of hypothetical bargain damages” – Brian Mason; “Proportionality: A cultural revolution” – Trevor CW Farrow; and “The Czech Arbitration Court: Online forms of dispute resolution” – Tereza Bartoskova. There is also a Comments section discussing indefeasibility of title, private nuisance and unincorporated associations. Finally there is a review of Class Actions in Australia by Damian Grave, Ken Adams and Jason Betts. Not to be missed!
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The Winter 2012 edition of Workplace Review includes the following articles: “The industrial relations system is fundamentally flawed” – Frank Marks; “The ACTU’s insecure work campaign” – Natalie Rodwell and Neil Napper; “From ABCC to FWBC: Tides of change?” – Irina Kolodizner and Neil Napper; “Assessing compensation in adverse action cases” – Ian Latham and David Taylor; “Casual chat backfires on bank” – Craig Tanner; and “Keeping older workers on the dance floor and the benefits of SLOW ageing” – Kate Marie and Eva Migdal. Also included in this Part are a range of section notes, including an interview of Professor John Buchanan, Vales of The Hon Judith Cohen and Frank Walker QC, the Diary and much more.
Posted in Update Summaries, Workplace Review (WR) | Tagged ACTU, adverse action, Australian Building and Construction Commission, Azadeh Khalilizadeh, casual chat, compensation, Craig Tanner, David Taylor, employee, Eva Migdal, Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth), Fair Work Building and Construction, Federal Court, Focus on: SA, Frank Marks, Frank Walker QC, Ian Latham, industrial action, Industrial Relations, insecure work campaign, Interview, Irina Kolodizner, Jeff Phillips on the case, Jeffrey Phillips, Kate Marie, manager, Michael Roberts, Natalie Rodwell, Neil Napper, older workers, Rick Manuel, SLOW ageing, The Hon Judith Cohen, The Hon Michael Gallacher, The Last Word, Vale |
The latest Part of the Australian Law Journal includes an article by John P Bryson which describes the principles of common law pleadings as applied in the Supreme Court of New South Wales prior to the Supreme Court Act 1970 (NSW); an article by Oliver Jones that considers the precedential status in the Federal Magistrates Court of decisions by the Federal Court; and an article by Rachel Mansted which discusses jurisdiction over foreign intellectual property law. Also in this Part are several sections: Current Issues; Letter to the Editor; Conveyancing and Property; Family Law; and Recent Cases.
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Public Law Review update: December 2014
The latest Part of PLR includes the following Comments: “Future challenges on the path to constitutional recognition of Indigenous peoples” – Megan Davis; “Dedicated Indigenous representation in New Zealand’s Parliament” – Andrew Geddis; the following Speech: “The changing character of judicial review in Australia: The legacy of Marbury v Madison?” – Ronald Sackville AO QC; and the following articles: “The Constitution and its common law background” – Jeffrey Goldsworthy; and “Dual federal and State judicial appointments: An Australian impossibility?” – Sarah Murray. There is also a book review and a developments section.