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The latest issue of the Australian Law Journal (Volume 99 Part 1) contains the following material:

CURRENT ISSUES – Editor: Justice François Kunc

  • Witnesses and Privacy – Two Guest Contributions
  • Witness Preparation: A Survey of Australian Trial Judges
  • Do We Change How We Protect? Changes to the Privacy Act
  • The Curated Page

TECHNOLOGY AND THE LAW – Editors: Lyria Bennett Moses and Angelina Gomez

NEW ZEALAND – Editor: Justice Matthew Palmer

Articles

Understanding and Measuring the Impact of Legal Scholarship – Lyria Bennett Moses and Catherine Renshaw

Legal scholarship has the potential to improve law and justice, including through supporting policy development, the development of the law in the courts, and legal practice. Government and universities increasingly recognise the importance of scholarship having real world impact and seek to measure and reward influence. That is a challenging task, particularly in the context of legal scholarship, and is sometimes made more difficult by other policies and practices. This article explains the reasons why it is important to understand and measure the diverse impacts of legal scholarship and how that might best be done, drawing on a survey of legal researchers across Australian universities.

Expert Evidence in Queensland: Disclosure of Draft Expert Reports Should Be Abolished – Liam Kelly KC and Dan Butler KC

This article considers r 212(2) of the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 1999 (Qld). This rule provides that a document consisting of a statement or report of an expert is not privileged from disclosure. It is the contention of the authors that the rule ought to be repealed.

NZYQ the Long and Winding Road: Al Masri Revisited – Sydney Tilmouth

The recent decision of the High Court of Australia in NZYQ v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs, unanimously holds that continued immigration detention is unlawful, when detention is not reasonably necessary for a legitimate and nonpunitive purpose and when there is no real prospect of removal from Australia becoming practicable in the reasonably foreseeable future. This decision was proceeded by a 28 period of lingering questions as to the correctness of the Court’s 2004 4-3 majority decisions in the cases of Al-Kateb v Godwin and Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs v Al Khafaji.

BOOK REVIEW – Editor: Angelina Gomez

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