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.
Posted in Australian Journal of Administrative Law (AJ Admin L), Journals, Update Summaries | Tagged accountability, AJ Admin L, automated debt notices, Benjamin Coles, Book reviews, case notes, Centrelink, Chelsea Brain, core public law values, Current issues, Dr Laura Hilly, Editorial, Ellen Rock, Fiona Roughley, Gabrielle Appleby, Greg Weeks, James Regan, Janina Boughey, Justin Davidson, Kasper Maat, Katie Miller, legally infirm administrative and judicial decisions, Matthew Groves, Minister for Immigration and Citizenship v Li (2013) 249 CLR 332; [2013] HCA 18, Nathalie Ng, Peter Sutherland, privacy, Privacy Commissioner v Telstra Corp Ltd (2017) 262 IR 230; [2017] FCAFC 4, relevance and privilege, Robin Creyke, s 38AA of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 (Cth), Stephen Tully, The Role of the Solicitor-General: Negotiating Law Politics and the Public Interest, validity, Veterans’ Entitlements and Military Compensation Law |
The Winter 2015 Part of the Workplace Review includes the following content: “Who has custody of a police officer’s goatee?” – Catherine Bembrick; “Elder abuse – an issue for employers?” – Rick Manuel; “Allegations and consequences: How should an employer respond to an employee’s misconduct?” – Luke Scandrett and Neil Napper; “Recent privacy considerations arising in the workplace – social media and limitations on collection and use by employers of employee-generated content” – Elizabeth Raper and Philippa Munton; Focus on South Australia: “Developments in reasonable notice and unfair dismissals” – Rick Manuel; Focus on Victoria: “Corporate accessorial liability” – Steven Moore; Interview: “Richard Kenzie: Without fear or favour – industrial relations the Kenzie way” – by Steven Andrew; Common Law and General Protections: “Tattsbet Ltd v Morrow: Employee or contractor?” – Andrew Denton; “Additional comments on “workplace rights”” – Victoria Lambropoulos; Work health and safety: “Drug testing in the workplace – does a worker’s “right” to privacy restrict an employer’s ability to effectively minimise work health and safety risks?” – Michael Tooma and Niaz Payne; Book Review, The Last Word, Diary and Artworks.
Posted in Update Summaries, Workplace Review (WR) | Tagged Andrew Denton, book review, Catherine Bembrick, Common Law and General Protections, corporate accessorial liability, Diary, drug testing in the workplace, elder abuse, Elizabeth Raper, employee misconduct, employee-generated content, fatal incidents in mines, Focus on Victoria, Focus On: South Australia, high hazard workplaces, Interview, Jeffrey Phillips SC, Kuyken v Chief Commissioner of Police, Luke Scandrett, Michael Tooma, Neil Napper, Niaz Payne, Paul Nisted, Philippa Munton, privacy, reasonable notice, Richard Kenzie, Rick Manuel, social media, Steven Andrew, Steven Moore, Tattsbet Ltd v Morrow, The Last Word, unfair dismissals, Victoria Lambropoulos, Work Health and Safety, workplace rights, WR |
The latest Part of the Australian Business Law Review includes the following material: “Uncovering the roots of Australia’s misuse of market power provision: Is it time to reconsider?” – Katharine Kemp; “Corporate whistleblowing: Public lessons for private disclosure” – Sulette Lombard and Vivienne Brand; ““Flogging a dead horse”: Artificial insemination, breeding standards and antitrust” – Shirley Quo; “Should the practical benefit principle extend to contract formation?” – Mark Giancaspro; Consumer Dealings: “Inquiry into Micro-economic reform in Western Australia” – Chris Field and Tracey Atkins; Privacy: “A seed on barren ground? the ALRC’s recommendation for a statutory privacy tort” – Normann Witzleb; and book reviews of “The Construction and Performance of Commercial Contracts” by S A Christensen and W D Duncan and “The Law of Affıdavits” by John Levingston (both reviewed by Peter Lithgow).
Posted in Australian Business Law Review (ABLR), Update Summaries | Tagged ABLR, ALRC, antitrust, artificial insemination, breeding standards, Chris Field, Consumer dealings, contract formation, corporate whistleblowing, Katharine Kemp, Mark Giancaspro, misuse of market power, Normann Witzleb, Peter Lithgow, practical benefit principle, privacy, private disclosure, Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013 (Cth), Shirley Quo, statutory privacy tort, Sulette Lombard, Vivienne Brand |
The latest part of the Australian Intellectual Property Journal publishes four interesting articles on a range of topics. The first article is by Ann L Monotti and examines the scope and meaning of the statutory tort for infringement of a patent by authorisation. The second article comes from Ella O’Sullivan who considers the current European and Australian positions regarding the patentability of human embryonic stem cells. The third article is by Belinda Huang who critically examines why Parliament failed to introduce an ethical exclusion against patentability in recent legislative changes. The final article comes from Dan Jerker B Svantesson and seeks to highlight how privacy is affected by, and affects, the application of copyright law in the context of online copyright piracy.
Posted in Australian Intellectual Property Journal (AIPJ), Update Summaries | Tagged AIPJ, Ann L Monotti, Belinda Huang, biotech patents, Brüstle v Greenpeace eV, Dan Jerker B Svantesson, Ella O'Sullivan, human embryonic stem cells, iiNet case, infringement, Intellectual Property Laws Amendment (Raising the Bar) Act 2012 (Cth), online copyright, patent, piracy, privacy |
The latest Part of ABLR includes two interesting articles. The first comes from Stephen Corones and Thomas Galloway and considers the uncertainty surrounding the scope of the best interests duty which forms part of the Government’s Future of Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms. The second article comes from Julie-Ann Tarr and considers the extent of private insurance cover and its availability to volunteers under home and contents insurance and under comprehensive motor vehicle insurance. There are also several section notes in this Part, including Privacy, Franchising, Consumer Dealings, and Company Law and Securities.
Posted in Australian Business Law Review (ABLR), Update Summaries | Tagged ABLR, best interests duty, company law and securities, Consumer dealings, Consumer Protection, franchising, Julie-Anne Tarr, liability, privacy, private insurance, Stephen Corones, Thomas Galloway, volunteers |
The latest issue of the Tort Law Review includes articles on medical liability laws in China, the doctrine of loss of chance and its history in Australia and the United Kingdom, material contribution to risk in the Canadian law of causation and European approaches to causation and the central role which judicial policy plays in resolving both legal causation and intervening causation issues.
Posted in Tort Law Review, The (Tort L Rev), Update Summaries | Tagged Canadian tort law, causation, Chao Xi, China, civil proceedings, David Birch, Douglas Hodgson, Lixin Yang, loss of chance, Lynda M Collins, material contribution test, medical liability, medical negligence claims, Po Jen Yap, privacy, Richard Mullender, risk of injury, Tabet v Gett, Tort Liability Law |
By Eliza Jane Saunders. This article considers the reliability of information sourced through the internet and looks at how some of the major patent offices around the world use information disclosed on the World Wide Web (WWW) as a source of prior art information in the examination of patent applications.