Insolvency Law Journal update: June 2014

By journals.team on July 16, 2014

The latest Part of the Insolvency Law Journal includes the following articles: "How to achieve a win for property owners and lessors – enforcing rights of possession under Pt 5.3A of the Corporations Act and relief against forfeiture" – Natalie Byrne; "Section 588FA, Burness, and Kassem: When are payments by third parties preferential?" – Jim Hartley; and "The enforcement of foreign judgments in avoidance proceedings in insolvency" – Joshua Kelly. There is also a Recent Developments section and a Report from New Zealand.

Journal of Law and Medicine update: June 2014

By journals.team on July 3, 2014

The latest Part of JLM includes the following articles: "Unfitness to stand trial decision-making in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia" – Ian Freckelton QC and Magda Karagiannakis; "Legal risk management and injury in the fitness industry: The outcomes of focus group research and a national survey of fitness professionals" – Patrick Keyzer, Ian R Coyle, Joachim Dietrich, Kevin Norton, Betul Sekendiz, Veronica Jones and Caroline F Finch; "Just a little bit more: When sports scientists cross the line" – Tyler Fox; "Beauty is only photoshop deep: Legislating models’ BMIs and photoshopping images" – Marilyn Krawitz; "Medical use of cannabis in Australia: “Medical necessity” defences under current Australian law and avenues for reform" – Charles Martin; "Patents and the obligation to protect health: Examining the significance of human rights considerations in the protection of pharmaceutical patents: – Olasupo Ayodeji Owoeye; "“Best interests” and withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from an adult who lacks capacity in the parens patriae jurisdiction" – Lindy Willmott, Ben White and Malcolm K Smith; "Transparency in mental health: Why mental health tribunals should be required to publish reasons" – Alison Smith and Andrew Caple; "Government databases and public health research: Facilitating access in the public interest" – Carolyn Adams and Judy Allen; "The spectre of court-sanctioned sacrificial separation of teenage conjoined twins against their will" – Colleen Davis; and "Judicial virtues and decision-making in the VCAT Guardianship List" – Richard Polkinghorn. Also included in this Part are several section notes, including Legal Issues; Medical Issues; Bioethical Issues; Nursing Issues; and Medical Law Reporter. There is also an editorial, a letter to the Editor and a book review.

Environmental and Planning Law Journal update: July 2014

By journals.team on July 3, 2014

The latest Part of the Environmental and Planning Law Journal includes the following articles: "Theory to practice: Adaptive management of the groundwater impacts of Australian mining projects" – Jessica Lee; "The precautionary principle, the coast and Temwood Holdings – Hon Justice Stephen Estcourt; " “Marginal improvements in the West”: New approaches to managing complex environmental and planning cases in the State Administrative Tribunal of Western Australia" – Peter McNab; and "Science hubris and insufficient legal safeguards" – Paul Martin and Jacqueline Williams.

Journal of Civil Litigation and Practice update: June 2014

By journals.team on July 3, 2014

The latest Part of the Journal of Civil Litigation Law and Practice publishes the following articles: "Project management in legal practices: Practical lessons from the e-Discovery workflow" – Tomoyuki Hachigo; "Playing fair: When advocates’ immunity is out of court" – Linda Haller; "Class action settlement in Australia: A regulatory work in progress?" – Anna Harley; and "Client legal privilege, discovery and Expense Reduction in the information age" – Michael Legg. There is also a Comments section.

Local Government Law Journal update: June 2014

By journals.team on July 3, 2014

The latest Part of the Local Government Law Journal includes the following articles: "Integrating social impact assessment into the planning regime of Parramatta City Council" – Kate McCauley and Richard Howitt; and "Cleaning up pollution fair and square: The duty to afford procedural fairness in the issue of clean-up notices in NSW" – Alison Packham. There is also a Digest of Cases and the Local Government and Planning Law Guide Cases.

Australian Law Journal update: July 2014

By journals.team on July 3, 2014

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.

Australian Business Law Review update: June 2014

By journals.team on June 23, 2014

The latest Part of the Australian Business Law Review includes the following articles: "Asset lending, unconscionable conduct and intermediaries" – Denise McGill; "Certainty and the ISDA credit derivative determinations committees" – G P Craddock; and "Whither a unified approach to the functional dimension of market definition: Why Metcash was the one that got away" – Josh Buckland. Also included in this Part are the following section notes: Banking and Finance: Financial literacy and financial decision-making of Australian secondary school students – Paul Ali, Cosima McRae and Ian Ramsay; Competition Law and Market Regulation: Strategic entry deterrence: Does it constitute a misuse of market power? – Stephen Corones; Contracts and Restitution: The High Court considers the meaning of “reasonable endeavours”: Electricity Generation Corp v Woodside Energy Ltd – Troy Keily; and New Zealand Newsletter: Frustration of contract in the New Zealand Supreme Court – Rex Ahdar.

Australian Law Journal update: June 2014

By journals.team on June 6, 2014

The latest Part of the Australian Law Journal publishes the following articles: "Foss v Harbottle: Alive and well in the public sector?" – Marco Bini; "Limiting the nature and scope of a beneficiary’s entitlement to receive trust information" – Elizabeth Bishop; and "The rise of the information barrier: Managing potential legal conflicts within commercial law firms" – Ian Dallen. Also in this Part are several section notes, including several brand new ones: Current Issues; Letter to the Editor; Conveyancing and Property; Around the Nation: Victoria; Constitutional Law; Crime and Evidence; Environmental Law; Competition and Consumer Law; Recent Cases; and Book Reviews

Public Law Review update: June 2014

By journals.team on June 6, 2014

The latest Part of PLR includes the following articles: "A power “singular and eccentrical”: Royal commissions and executive power after Williams" – Nicholas Aroney; "Rethinking unreasonableness review" – Leighton McDonald; "Accountability of the judiciary" – Hon Justice McGrath; and the following Comments: "Drafting a replacement for the races power in the Australian Constitution" – Rosalind Dixon and George Williams; "New Zealand’s Parliamentary Privilege Bill: The empire finally strikes back" – Andrew Geddis; "Fortescue Metals Group Ltd v Commonwealth: Discrimination and fiscal federalism" – Amelia Simpson. There is also a Developments section.

Criminal Law Journal update: June 2014

By journals.team on June 6, 2014

The latest Part of the Criminal Law Journal publishes the following articles: "The admissibility of forensic science and medicine evidence under the Uniform Evidence Law" – Gary Edmond; and "Retrials of persons acquitted of indictable offences in England and Australia: Exceptions to the rule against double jeopardy" – Marilyn McMahon. Also in this Part is an Editorial and a Digest of Criminal Law Cases.