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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The latest Part of the Property Law Review includes the following content: “The doctrine of extinguishment: And then there was Congoo” – MA Stephenson; “Section 51(xxxi): A ‘constitutional guarantee’ to disappoint property owners” – Paulina Fishman; “The Crown and possessory title of Torrens land in South Australia” – Paul Babie; Singapore: “Recent developments: Islamic charitable trusts, implied easements, compulsory acquisition, and laches as a defence to an action for an account” – Kelvin Low; Queensland: “Taking reasonable steps to verify identity – When are further inquiries necessary to meet the standard?” – Sharon Christensen; “Changes to the Retail Shop Leases Act 1994 (Qld)” – Bill Dixon.
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The latest Part of the Property Law Review includes the following content: “Developing the ultimate cadastre: Using indefeasibility to guarantee geodetic defined land boundaries” – Lynden Griggs; “Towards women’s equal right to property: Recent judicial developments in India” – Archana Mishra; “Succession and inheritance law in Nigeria: Resolving the discriminatory proprietary rights of widows and children” – T Kehinde Adekunle; New Zealand: “Developments in easements – or easements in development?” – Thomas Gibbons; Singapore: “Recent developments: Leases, interests of specific legatees, indefeasibility and collective sales” – Kelvin Low; South Australia: “Is native title a defence to a mortgagee’s right to possession?” – Paul Babie; Western Australia: “Legislation and case law developments: Strata title; residential parks; rent review provisions and uncertainty” – Eileen Webb.
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The latest Part of the Australian Law Journal includes the following articles: “Gaining public confidence in the judiciary: Sir William Portus Cullen, Chief Justice of New South Wales, 1910-1925” – Tony Cunneen; and “The negation of venting in Australian sentencing: Denouncing denunciation and retribution” – Professor Mirko Bagaric. Also in this Part are the following sections: Current issues; Conveyancing and Property; Family Law; Personalia; International Focus; Competition and Consumer Law; and Recent Cases. There is also a letter to the editor and an obituary for Kevin Maurice Waller.
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Thomson Reuters is pleased to announce the appointment of Jennifer Stuckey-Clarke as a brand new New South Wales Section Editor for Property Law Review. Jennifer Stuckey-Clarke is a barrister practising in Sydney at 15 Wardell Chambers. Educated at the Australian National University and Cambridge University, she was Senior Lecturer in Equity and Trusts and Intellectual ...more
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The latest Part of EPLJ includes the following: “Transferable lessons for climate change adaptation planning? Managing bushfire and coastal climate hazards in Australia” – Anita Foerster, Andrew Macintosh and Jan McDonald; “Adaptive reuse of heritage buildings – do current planning and heritage controls support the concept?” – Paul Leadbeter; “The role of export credit agencies in environmental management: International benchmarks in ECA financing” – Susan Shearing; “Environmental property rights in Australia: Constructing a new Tower of Babel” – Paul Martin, Amanda Kennedy, John Page and Jacqueline Williams; and “Native title – a right to burn and fire the land? Savanna burning and the Carbon Farming Initiative in northern Australia” – Michael O’Donnell.
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The latest Part of the Local Government Law Journal publishes an article by Michael Walton about the relationship between native title and Queensland planning legislation. Also in this Part is a Digest of Cases and Local Government and Planning Law Guide Cases sections: “Supreme Court and Equivalent Decisions” and “Merits Appeals”.
The latest Part of the Public Law Review includes articles on a wide range of topics, including the loss or impairment of native title; s 6(2)(b) of the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 (Vic); what role international law should play in Australian constitutional interpretation; and the power of State parliaments to entrench legislation by enacting manner or form requirements. There are also two Comments, the first discussing executive power after Williams v Commonwealth and the second looks at the use of representative government to bypass representative government. There is also a Developments section.
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Public Law Review update: March 2014
The latest Part of PLR publishes the following articles: “The physics of jurisdictional error” – Steven Forrest; “Expert panels, public engagement and constitutional reform” – Paul Kildea; and “State tribunals within and without the integrated federal judicial system” – David Rowe; and the following Comments: “Anti-terrorism law reform: Now or never?” – Jessie Blackbourn; “Native title extinguishment law in the High Court” – Sean Brennan; “The constitutional role of the judge” – The Hon William Gummow AC; and “Judicial power and declarations of rights inconsistency” – The Hon Justice Steven Rares. There is also a book review and a developments section.