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The latest issue of the Australian Law Journal (Volume 100 Part 2) contains the following material:

CURRENT ISSUES – Editor: Justice François Kunc

  • An antisemitic atrocity at Bondi
  • Doli incapax changes in NSW
  • Jury reform in England and Wales
  • The Chief Justice of South Australia retires
  • The Curated Page

CONVEYANCING AND PROPERTY – Editors: Robert Angyal SC and Brendan Edgeworth

CRIME AND EVIDENCE – Editor: Justice Phillip Priest

RECENT CASES – Editor: Ruth Higgins

Articles

History of the Australian Law Journal: The 1920s: A New Voice for the Legal Profession – Larissa Reid

This article traces the establishment and early development of the Australian Law Journal in the 1920s, situating its launch in 1927 within a profession seeking national identity after Federation. It examines the Journal’s founding aims: to provide practical legal information, encourage the interchange of ideas across State boundaries, and offer legal rather than political criticism of cases and statutes. The article profiles key figures including inaugural editor Sir Bernard Sugerman, Law Book Company managing director HN Lambert, and the first State and section editors. It also explores the Journal’s early voice, recurring columns, engagement with legal history, and role as a record of professional life. Through examples from its pages, the article reveals contemporary concerns including professional regulation, women in law, motor vehicle litigation, divorce, constitutional law, and Australia’s continuing relationship with English precedent.

Climate Change: Government Responsibilities Under Australian Law – John Basten

“We’re All In This Together”: Civility and Institutional Trust – Justice Peter Quinlan

Justice Peter Quinlan argues that judicial civility is essential not only for collegiality but for sustaining institutional trust in the judiciary. Personal attacks by judges on one another risk shifting public confidence from the court as an institution to the perceived virtues of individual judges, thereby weakening judicial legitimacy. Because trust in judges is necessarily institutional rather than personal, disagreement and appellate correction must be framed as part of the judiciary’s self-correcting function, not as occasions for ridicule or moral superiority. Quinlan concludes that judges should communicate disagreement carefully, avoid language implying personal deficiency, and remain conscious that public confidence depends on the judiciary acting, and appearing, as a collective institution.

BOOK REVIEW – Editor: Angelina Gomez

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