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Australian Law Journal update: Vol 92 Pt 2

By Journal Alerts on April 20, 2018

The latest Part of the Australian Law Journal contains the following articles: “Security for Costs in Unfunded Federal Class Actions: Back to the Future” – Vince Morabito and Naomi Hatcher; and “The Unresolved Problem of Expert Evidence” – Thomas Kearney. This Part also includes the following sections: Current Issues; Conveyancing and Property; Statutory Interpretation; The Legal Observer; Personalia; Family Law; and Recent Cases.

Posted in Australian Law Journal, The (ALJ), Journals, Update Summaries | Tagged ALJ, Australian Law Reform Commission, Brendan Edgeworth, Chief Justice Marilyn Warren, class actions without commercial litigation funders support, constructional choice, Conveyancing and property, costs of expert evidence, Current issues, Emily Vale, excessive costs and inappropriate correspondence, executive policies on entry of foreign nationals, expert evidence, Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act 2009 (Cth), family law, Hate Speech Law reform, High Court Judge James Edelman, increasing the minimum age of criminal responsibility, Industrial Relations: Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth), institutional responses to child sexual abuse, Justice François Kunc, Justice John Byrne AO RFD, leases and certainty of duration requirement, McNab v Graham [2017] VSCA 352, Michael Pelly, migration: protection visas, Modern Slavery Law reform, Naomi Hatcher, new Commonwealth Attorney-General, OPCAT ratified, Personalia, potential for expert bias, Queensland, Recent cases, relief for proprietary estoppel, Richard Ingleby, Robert Angyal SC, Ruth C A Higgins SC, Statutory interpretation, The Hon John Basten, The Legal Observer, third party litigation funding in class actions, Thomas Kearney, Victoria, Vince Morabito | Leave a response

Australian Law Journal update: Vol 91 Pt 9

By Journal Alerts on September 20, 2017

The latest Part of the Australian Law Journal contains the following articles: “Subrogation to the Trustee’s Personal Right of Indemnity” – Ahmed Terzic; “Family Provision Applications: A Critique” – Anthony Gray; “Family Provision Law in New South Wales: Celebrating its Centenary” – Tihana Mandic. This Part also includes the following sections: Current Issues; Conveyancing and Property; Around the Nation: Northern Territory; Crime and Evidence; Family Law; The Legal Observer (“Playing Politics with the Politicians”); Corporations and Securities; Recent Cases; and Book Reviews.

Posted in Australian Law Journal, The (ALJ), Journals, Update Summaries | Tagged Ahmed Terzic, Alan Robertson, ALJ, Angelina Gomez, Anthony Gray, Around the Nation: Northern Territory, ASIC v Flugge [No 2] [2017] VSC 117, Baxter Roberts, Book reviews, Brendan Edgeworth, caveats, Conveyancing and property, Corporations and Securities, Crime and Evidence, Current issues, Eli Ball, Enrichment at the Claimant’s Expense: Attribution Rules in Unjust Enrichment, family law, family provision applications, family provision law, gifts in contemplation of death, Greg Weeks, Hon Dean Mildren AM RFD QC, Hugh Selby, Interpretation of International Investment Treaties, J C Campbell QC FAAL, Jacobs’ Law of Trusts in Australia, John Dyson Heydon, Judicial Review of Administrative Action and Government Liability, Julian R Murphy, Justice François Kunc, Justice Phillip Priest, Kanaga Dharmananda SC, Keith Mason AC QC, Local Court of the Northern Territory, Mark Aronson, Mark James Leeming, Matthew Groves, Michael Pelly, Northern Territory Civil and Administrative Tribunal, Paul Bennett, Prosecuting, Raymond Gibson, Recent cases, recording conversations, Richard Ingleby, Robert Angyal SC, Robert Baxt AO, Ruth C A Higgins, s 44 of the Constitution, short-term lettings in strata developments, Specialist Courts for Sentencing Aboriginal Offenders: Aboriginal Courts in Australia, subrogation to the trustee's personal right of indemnity, Tarcisio Gazzini, tendency evidence, Testator’s Family Maintenance and Guardianship of Infants Act 1916 (NSW), The Legal Observer, Tihana Mandic, unfair testamentary provisions | Leave a response

Australian Law Journal update: Vol 91 Pt 8

By Journal Alerts on August 24, 2017

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.

Posted in Australian Law Journal, The (ALJ), Journals, Update Summaries | Tagged Accommodating Muslims Under Common Law, Admiralty and Maritime, ALJ, ALRC – Elder Abuse – A National Legal Response, Angelina Gomez, appellate hierarchy, Around the nation: Tasmania, Arthur R Emmett AO QC, Australian Securities and Investment Commission, Book reviews, Brendan Edgeworth, Carolyn Rogers, Clare Langford, class actions, common fund, Community Protection Offender Register, compulsory examinations, contempt of court by politicians, Conveyancing and property, Corporations and Securities, Crime Commissions, Current issues, Darren C Kane, Deborah Healey, Doping in Sport and Law, Dr Damien J Cremean, From the law schools, Gabrielle Appleby, Ghena Krayem, Hon T F Bathurst AC, John Riordan, judicial independence, Justice François Kunc, Justice Stephen Estcourt AO, letter to the editor, M J Beazley AO, Michael Legg, Michael Pelly, National Court of Appeal, Obituary, personal views in judicial decisions, Personalia, Peter Birks, power of sale, privilege against self-incrimination, Professor Michael Coper, Recent cases, right to silence, risk of sex offending, Robert Angyal SC, Robert Baxt AO, Role of the Solicitor-General, Ruth C A Higgins, Salim Farrar, Sarah Schwartz, Senior Registrar of the High Court, Shawn Rajanayagam, slot charters, statutory duty of care on mortgagees, surrogate ship arrest, The Hon Justice Stephen Gageler AC, The Legal Observer, The Roman Law of Obligations, Ulrich Haas, W Sofronoff | Leave a response

Australian Law Journal update: Vol 91 Pt 5 – ALJ’s 90th Anniversary Special Issue

By Journal Alerts on May 8, 2017

The May Part of the Australian Law Journal marks the ALJ’s 90th anniversary since it first started in 1927, and is a Special Issue on Indigenous Australians and the law, with articles curated by Professor Megan Davis, UNSW’s first Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous: “Indigenous Constitutional Recognition: Paths to Failure and Possible Paths to Success” – Shireen Morris and Noel Pearson; “Testamentary Freedom and Customary Law: The Impact Of Succession Law on the Inheritance Needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in Australia” – Prue Vines; “Opportunity is There for the Taking: Legal and Cultural Principles to Re-start Discussion on Aboriginal Heritage Reform in WA” – Lauren Butterly, Ambelin Kwaymullina and Blaze Kwaymullina; “Two New Township Leases on Aboriginal Land in the Northern Territory” – Leon Terrill; “Ensuring Ethical Collaborations in Indigenous Arts and Records Management” – Terri Janke; “Thinking Outside the Constitution on Indigenous Constitutional Recognition: Entrenching the Racial Discrimination Act” – Dylan Lino; “Administrative Law” – Gemma McKinnon; “What Does National Equality Law Have to do with Closing the Gap?” – Laura Beacroft. This Part also includes the following sections: “Current Issues”; Prof Peter Butt’s final notes on “Conveyancing and Property”; and two new Sections: “The Legal Observer” by Michael Pelly; and “Statutory Interpretation” by the Hon Justice John Basten; as well as Book Reviews.

Posted in Australian Law Journal, The (ALJ), Journals, Update Summaries | Tagged 90th anniversary, Aboriginal Heritage Act 1972 (WA), administrative law, ALJ, Ambelin Kwaymullina, Angelina Gomez, Blaze Kwaymullina, book review, Brexit, closing the gap, constitutional recognition, Conveyancing and property, Crime Aboriginality and the Decolonisation of Justice, Current issues, Dylan Lino, Gemma McKinnon, Harry Blagg, Indigenous arts, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous representative body, intellectual property, Julian R Murphy, Justice François Kunc, Justice John Basten, Laura Beacroft, Lauren Butterly, Leon Terrill, Megan Davis, Michael Pelly, national equality law, National Indigenous Cultural Authority, Noel Pearson, Peter Butt, Prue Vines, Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth), records management, Robert French, Shireen Morris, Sir Robert Torrens, Special Issue, Statutory interpretation, succession law, Terri Janke, The Future of Australian Legal Education Conference, The Legal Observer, township leases | Leave a response

Former Chief Justice Robert French AC sits down with ALJ’s “Legal Observer”

By journals team on May 1, 2017

The upcoming May special issue of The Australian Law Journal features an interview with recently retired High Court Chief Justice, The Hon Robert Shenton French AC, twelfth Chief Justice of Australia. This is published in a new Section called “The Legal Observer” written by Mr Michael Pelly. Meanwhile, you can read the transcript of the interview here.