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.
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The latest Part of AJ Admin L includes the following articles: “Refugee Protection and State Security in Australia: Piecing Together Protective Regimes” – Peter Billings; “Characterising Migration Directions as Legislative Instruments: Implications for Judicial Review” – Christopher Chiam; and “Planning and Soft Law” – Greg Weeks and Linda Pearson. Also in this Part are the following sections: Current Issues; Casenotes; and Book Reviews.
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The latest Part of the Public Law Review includes the following content: Comments: “The Incorporation by Reference of Technical Standards in Legislation: A Developing Issue” – Stephen Argument; “Expanding the Entrenched Minimum Provision of Judicial Review? Graham v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection” – Lisa Burton Crawford; “Judicial Enforcement of New Zealand’s Reserved Provisions” – Andrew Geddis; and the following Articles: “Unveiling the Public Interest: The Parameters of Executive Discretion in Australian Migration Legislation” – Gabrielle Appleby and Alexander Reilly; “An Impasse in New Zealand Administrative Law: How Did We Get Here?” – MB Rodriguez Ferrere; “Non-statutory Executive Power” – KM Hayne; and Developments.
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The latest Part of the Australian Law Journal includes the following articles: “Conscience, Fair-Dealing and Commerce: Parliaments and the Courts” – Chief Justice James Allsop AO; and “The Decline and Fall of Australia’s Law Reform Institutions – And the Prospects of Revival” – Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG. Also in this Part are the following sections: Current Issues; Conveyancing and Property; Around the Nation: Victoria; Competition and Consumer Law; Recent Cases; and Book Reviews.
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This Part includes the following articles: “Beyond ‘Validity’ – The Effect of Legally Infirm Administrative and Judicial Decisions” – Benjamin Coles; “How to Remain Relevant and Privileged: s 38AA of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975” – Kasper Maat, Dr Laura Hilly and Chelsea Brain; “Accountability: A Core Public Law Value?” – Ellen Rock. Also in this Part are the following sections: Current Issues; Casenotes: Privacy Commissioner v Telstra Corp Ltd (2017) 262 IR 230; [2017] FCAFC 4; and Book Reviews.
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The latest Part of the Australian Law Journal contains the following articles: “Crime Commissions and Compulsory Examinations: Whither the Right to Silence?” – Hon T F Bathurst AC and Sarah Schwartz; “Ramifications of the Recognition of a Common Fund in Australian Class Actions: An Early Appraisal” – Michael Legg; “The Case Against a National Court of Appeal” – Shawn Rajanayagam. This Part also includes the following sections: Current Issues; Letter to the Editor; Conveyancing and Property; The Legal Observer; Personalia; Around the Nation: Tasmania; Corporations and Securities; From the Law Schools; Admiralty and Maritime; Recent Cases; Book Reviews; and Obituary.
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The latest Part of the Australian Law Journal contains speeches presented at the ALJ’s 90th Anniversary celebrations in the Banco Court of the NSW Supreme Court; a welcome to the co-editors of the “Conveyancing and Property Section” upon the retirement of Emeritus Professor Peter Butt; and a look back at the beginnings of the Journal, as covered by the press and media outlets of the day, in a fascinating piece by the Hon Justice Reginald Barrett. This Part contains the following articles: “The in personam exception to Torrens indefeasibility” – Hon William Gummow AC; “Artificial Intelligence in the courts, legal academia and legal practice” – Lyria Bennett Moses; “Taking advantage of advances in technology to enhance the rule of law” – Robert Size. It also includes the following sections: Current Issues; Letters to the Editor; Conveyancing and Property; International Focus; Competition and Consumer Law; Recent Cases; Book Reviews and Obituary.
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The latest Part of the Public Law Review includes the following content: Comments: “The Law Officers of the Commonwealth” – Gabrielle Appleby; “Third Party Electioneering on New Zealand’s Broadcast Media” – Andrew Geddis; Speech: “Rights and Freedoms and the Rule of Law” – The Hon Robert French AC; and the following Articles: “Towards Indigenous–Settler Federalism” – Dylan Lino; “The Masking of Judicial Power Values: Historical Analogies and Double Function Provisions” – James Stellios; “Adequacy of Risk Assessment in the Exercise of the Character Cancellation Power under the Migration Act 1958 (Cth)” – Joel Townsend; and Developments.
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The latest part of the Public Law Review includes the following Comments: “The constitutionality of draft legislation banning the wearing of face veils and similar clothing” – Mitchell Landrigan; and “Commonwealth spending after Williams (No 2): Has the new dawn risen?” – Andrew Lynch; and the following articles: “The impact of uncertain constitutional norms on government policy: Tribunal design after Kirk” – Gabrielle Appleby and Anna Olijnyk; and “An alternative (partial) justification for the holding in Kirk” – Oscar I Roos. There is also a Developments section.
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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.