
Australian Law Journal update: Vol 94 Pt 6
The latest Part of the Australian Law Journal contains the following articles: “Regulating Forensic Science And Medicine Evidence At Trial: It’s Time For A Wall, A Gate And Some Gatekeeping” – Gary Edmond; “Detouring “Business As Usual”: Alternative Pathways Through The Australian Legal System For Individuals And Communities Seeking Action On Climate Change” – Jordan Elliott and Amy Maguire; and “The First 24 Years Of The Victorian Court Of Appeal In Crime” – Gavin Silbert QC. This Part also includes the following sections: Current Issues; Corporations and Securities; Family Law; International Focus; and Books Received.
Australian Law Journal update: Vol 90 Pt 12
The latest Part of the Australian Law Journal includes the following articles: “Unconscionability and promissory estoppel” – Acting Justice Peter Young AO; and “Human rights and business lawyers: The 2011 watershed” – John Southalan. Also in this Part are the following sections: Current Issues; Conveyancing and Property; Around the Nation: Australian Capital Territory; Around the Nation: Queensland; Around the Nation: Victoria; Competition and Consumer Law; Recent Cases (Prince Alfred College Inc v ADC; Façade Treatment Engineering Pty Ltd (In liq) v Brookfield Multiplex Constructions Pty Ltd; R (Ingenious Media Holdings plc) v Commissioners for HMRC); and Book Reviews.
Australian Law Journal update: Vol 90 Pt 11
The latest Part of the Australian Law Journal includes the following articles: “Procedural Fairness: The Age of Legitimate Expectation is Over” – Naomi Sharp; and “His or Her Duty to Keep Secret” – Julie Kinross and Peter Davis QC.
Also in this Part are the following sections: Current Issues; Conveyancing and Property; From the Law Schools; Human Rights; Equity and Trusts; Admiralty and Maritime; Recent Cases; Books Received; Book Reviews: “Scholarly Misconduct: Law, Regulation, and Practice” by Ian Freckelton QC; “When Doctors and Parents Disagree: Ethics, Paediatrics and the Zone of Parental Discretion” by Rosalind McDougall, Clare Delany and Lynn Gillam; “Australian Domain Name Law” by Alpana Roy; and “Ten Years of the Civil Procedure Act 2005 (NSW): A Decade of Insights and Guide to Future Litigation” by Miiko Kumar and Michael Legg; and an Obituary tribute to the late James Donald Merralls AM, QC, written by J H Karkar QC.
Presumption of Innocence and Wrongful Conviction in Australia
The presumption of innocence is as old as law itself. When Lord Blackstone postulated that it is “better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer”, his Lordship was drawing on a long and distinguished line of legal jurisprudence including Genesis, the Code of Hammurabi and the Codex Justinianus. To protect against wrongful convictions, the criminal ...more
Australian Law Journal update: October 2015
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.
Special issue on commercial surrogacy published in the Journal of Law and Medicine
A special issue on commercial surrogacy features in the December 2015 issue (Vol 23, Pt 2) of the Journal of Law and Medicine. In an introductory note to the special issue, Chief Judge John Pascoe of the Federal Circuit Court of Australia comments that the: fundamental issue for any community in relation to surrogacy is ...more
Criminal Law Journal – Editorial (June 2015)
THE CAPITAL PUNISHMENT DEBATE FOLLOWING THE DEATHS OF ANDREW CHAN AND MYURAN SUKUMARAN SHOULD SHIFT TO THE UNITED STATES by Mirko Bagaric, Dean of Law School, Deakin University The executions of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran for drug trafficking by the Indonesian authorities was cruel and futile. The Australian government and much of the community is rightly ...more
Australian Law Journal update: May 2015
The latest Part of the Australian Law Journal includes the following articles: “The United States and the Australian Constitution: Influence of US Constitutional model on development and interpretation of the Australian Constitution” – Kathleen Morris and James Allsop AO; and “Reassessment of Robert Menzies’ contribution in the Engineers Case” – Gerard Carney . Also in this part are the following sections: Current Issues; Letter to the Editor; Conveyancing and Property; Personalia; Family Law; Human Rights; Recent cases; and Book Reviews.