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

By journalalerts 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.

Environmental and Planning Law Journal update: Vol 34 Pt 3

By journalalerts on May 8, 2017

This Part of the Environmental and Planning Law Journal includes the following articles: "Environmental decision-making in the Anthropocene: Challenges for ecologically sustainable development and the case for systems thinking" – Laura Schuijers; "Should a general 'duty of care' for the environment become a centerpiece of a 'next generation' environment protection statute?" – Neil Gunningham; "Victorian ecologically sustainable forest management: Pt III – Regulatory theory and modality" – Rhett Martin; "Anything goes? Performance-based planning and the slippery slope in Queensland planning law" – Philippa England and Amy McInerney; "REDD+ and forest fires: Implications for the legal and policy forest fire management framework in Indonesia" – Laely Nurhidayah, Zada Lipman and Shawkat Alam.

Workplace Review update: Autumn 2017

By journalalerts on April 28, 2017

The Autumn 2017 issue of Workplace Review contains the following articles: "Investing in people" – Dr John Falzon; "Thinking outside the square: Long Service Leave today" – Ashleigh Mills (winner of the 2016 McCallum Medal Competition); "Complaints and inquiries: Pain in the neck or workplace right?" – Neil Napper and Luke Scandrett; "'The King’s Shilling': Military industrial relations in Australia" – Jeffrey Phillips SC; and "The insidious abuse of Section 389(1)(a)" – Bruce Taylor. Also featured is an interview with WR's co-General Editor Jeffrey Phillips SC, and the following sections: Focus On: SA; Focus On: WA; Work Health and Safety; Book Review; as well as Diary, and The Last Word.

Insolvency Law Journal update: Vol 25 Pt 1

By journalalerts on April 22, 2017

This edition of the Insolvency Law Journal marks the retirement of Adjunct A/Prof Colin Anderson after more than a decade as General Editor, and the first issue of the new co-General Editors Prof Rosalind Mason and A/Prof David Morrison. The latest Part of the Journal includes the following articles: "The Anti-deprivation Rule and the Pari Passu Rule in Insolvency" – Peter Niven; "Prepayment Consumer Creditors: A Special Case for Insolvency Proceedings?" – Christopher Symes and Beth Nosworthy; and the following section notes: Recent Developments: "Liquidating Trustee Companies" – Chris Bailey; "Sanderson as Liquidator of SAKR Nominees Pty Ltd (in liq) v SAKR [2017] NSWCA 38." – Joanne Shepard; and Report from New Zealand: "Should a Bankrupt’s Retirement Savings be available to Repay Creditors?" – Lynne Taylor.

Australian Law Journal update: Vol 91 Pt 4

By journalalerts on April 21, 2017

The latest Part of the Australian Law Journal contains the following articles: "'Judges' Sons Make the Final Sacrifice': The Story of the Australian Judicial Community in the First World War" – Tony Cunneen; "The Honourable Sir Kenneth Jacobs KBE: A Centenary Appreciation" – Hon William Gummow AC; "The Honourable Septimus Burt KC" – Julian Burt and Angelina Gomez; "The Changing Face of Judicial Leadership: A Western Australian Perspective" – Robert French AC. This Part also includes the following sections: Current Issues; Conveyancing and Property; Around the Nation: Tasmania; Administrative Law; Personalia; Admiralty and Maritime; International Focus; Recent Cases and Book Reviews.

Criminal Law Journal update: Vol 41 Pt 2

By journalalerts on April 13, 2017

The latest Part of the Criminal Law Journal includes the following articles: "The Purposes of Punishment: How Do Judges Apply a Legislative Statement of Sentencing Purposes?" – Kate Warner, Julia Davis and Helen Cockburn; "What Australian Jurors Know and Do Not Know about Evidence of Child Sexual Abuse" – Jane Goodman-Delahunty, Natalie Martschuk and Annie Cossins; and "Recent Developments in New Zealand Criminal Law" – Warren Brookbanks. Also in this Part is an Editorial on resisting the temptation to impose harsher sanctions against young offenders; Case and Comment: "Cini v Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police [2016] VSCA 227: Nothing Soft about Australian Proceeds of Crime Jurisprudence" – Samuel J Hickey; and a Digest of Criminal Law Cases.

Journal of Law and Medicine update: Vol 24 Pt 3

By journalalerts on April 10, 2017

The latest Part of the Journal of Law and Medicine includes an Editorial: "Bolam Buried, Belatedly?" – Ian Freckelton QC; and the following sections: Legal Issues: "Judicial Review of Medical Panel Decisions" – Carol Newlands; Medical Issues: "Alcohol Consumption and Impairment of Surgeons: A Case for Total Abstinence?" – Mike O’Connor; Medical Law Reporter: "The Essendon Football Club Supplements Saga: Exploring Natural Justice for Team Sanctions within Anti-Doping Regulations" – Madeleine Farrar and Thomas Faunce; and a Letter to the Editor. Also in this Part are the following articles: "Vexatious, Misconceived and Avoidable Reports by Peers to Medical Regulators: A Qualitative Study of Health Practitioners in Australia" – Laura A Thomas and Marie M Bismark; "Practitioner Health Issues Featuring Before New Zealand’s Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal: An Analysis of Cases 2003-2014" – Lois J Surgenor, Kate Diesfeld, Kate Kersey and Michael Ip; "Monitoring a 'Menace': Peer Review and the Regulation of Substance-Addicted Doctors, 1933-1948" – Gabrielle Wolf; "Lights and Sirens: How Coronial Inquests Can Highlight Challenges in Paramedic Regulation" – Dominique Moritz; "Expert Witness Immunity in Australia after Attwells v Jackson Lalic Lawyers: A Smaller and Less Predictable Shield?" – Tina Cockburn and Bill Madden; "The Right to Health: Implications for the Funding of Medicines in Australia" – Claudia Harper, Narcyz Ghinea and Wendy Lipworth; "Asynchronous Medicines Legislation for Non-Medical Prescribing" – Denise L Hope and Michelle A King; "Paying for Risky Decisions: Civil Liability of Non-Vaccinators" – Nikki Bromberger; "Criteria for Decision-Making Capacity: Between Understanding and Evidencing a Choice" – Lisa Eckstein and Scott YH Kim; "A Positive Duty to Rescue and Medical Practitioners: A Review of the Current Position in Australia and a Comparison with International Models" – Jayr Teng; "The Making of a Health Profession: A South African Case Study" – Andra le Roux-Kemp; and "Development, Access to Medicines and the Ebola Virus Epidemic in West Africa" – Olasupo Owoeye and Jumoke Oduwole. There is also a review of the book "The State and the Body: Legal Regulation of Bodily Autonomy" by Elizabeth Weeks – reviewed by Ian Freckelton QC.

Australian Law Journal update: Vol 91 Pt 3

By journalalerts on April 9, 2017

The latest Part of the Australian Law Journal contains the following articles: “Not worth the paper they’re not written on? Executing documents (including deeds) under electronic documentation platforms: Part B" – Diccon Loxton; "Burqas and Niqabs in the courtroom: Finding practical solutions" – Renae Barker. This Part also includes the following sections: Current Issues; Conveyancing and Property; Constitutional Law; Around the Nation: Western Australia; International Focus; Recent Cases and Book Reviews.

Building and Construction Law Journal update: Vol 33 Pt 1

By journalalerts on April 9, 2017

The latest Part of the Building and Construction Law Journal includes the following articles: "The Limits of Limitation Clauses" – Julian Bailey; "Good Faith in the AS11000: Has the Eagle Landed?" – Alexander Di Stefano. Also in this Part is an Editorial; and the following case Reports: Simic v New South Wales Land & Housing Corporation [2016] HCA 47; and Laing O'Rourke Australia Construction Pty Ltd v Samsung C&T Corporation [2016] WASCA 130.

Family Law Review update: Vol 7 Pt 1

By journalalerts on April 6, 2017

The latest Part of the Family Law Review includes the following material: "The prevalence of allegations of family violence in proceedings before the Federal Circuit Court of Australia" – Judge Joe Harman; "Another tool in their arsenal? The potential of domestic violence typologies to inform family law alternative dispute resolution processes" – Hayley Boxall and Dr Jason Payne; "The reach and efficacy of s 121 of the Family Law Act" – Sharon Rodrick and Adiva Sifris; Child Support: "Child support and the autochthonous expedient" – Simon Bacon; Property and Financial Arrangements: "Justice, equity and alteration of individual property interests" – Will Stidston and Anna Parker; Practice and Procedure: "The teetering capacity of family law litigants: The risks to mentally ill litigants when the court is unaware they lack capacity" – Bridget Cullen; In the High Court: "Parenting orders, children's views, order in favour of 'strangers': Bondelmonte – Dean Foley; and Recent Cases: Lane v Nichols, Masters v Cheyne, Fewster v Drake, and Russo v Wylie.