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Environmental and Planning Law Journal update: Vol 40 Pt 5

By journalalerts on May 27, 2025

This Part of the Environmental and Planning Law Journal (EPLJ) includes the following articles: "A Matter of Principles and Interest: Recalibrating Export Finance Australia’s Law and Policy, to Promote Sustainable Export Growth" – Jessica Si Jia Xia; "Greenwashing the Sheets: A Case Study Evaluating Sustainability Claims on Cotton Sheets as Misleading or Deceptive Conduct" – Imogen Picker; "Poster Child of Climate Change: The Great Barrier Reef as an Instigator of Climate Change Litigation in Australia" – Shi-Mei Ewing; and "Justiciability Issues in Climate Change Litigation – Brian J Preston.

Posted In:  Environmental and Planning Law Journal (EPLJ)  Tagged:   “Glasgow Statement”   Australian Consumer Law (ACL)   Brian J Preston   carbon emissions   clean energy transition   climate litigation   concept of justiciability in climate change litigation in three areas of the law   cotton   Dr Gerry Bates   effects of anthropogenic climate change   Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth)   environmental law   EPBC Act   export credit agencies (ECAs)   Export Finance Australia   fossil fuel   Great Barrier Reef   greenhouse gases   greenwashing   Imogen Picker   Jessica Si Jia Xia   Shi-Mei Ewing   sustainability   Sweden 

Local Government Law Journal update: Vol 25 Pt 3

By journalalerts on May 7, 2025

This Part of the Local Government Law Journal includes the following content: "Developments in Substantially the Same Modification Applications Case Law: Realising the Implications for Planners" by Willem van Wyk and Anthony Roydhouse, and "Command and Control Fails – Events Regulation New South Wales 2012–2016" by Garry O'Dell. The Local Government Planning and Law Guide Cases are provided by Stephanie Booker, Lawrie Groom, Chris Harold and Josh Walsh, and there is also a Digest of Cases.

Posted In:  Journals  Tagged:   Anthony Roydhouse   Command and Control Fails – Events Regulation New South Wales 2012–2016   Developments in Substantially the Same Modification Applications Case Law: Realising the Implications for Planners   Garry O'Dell   Josh Walsh   Lawrie Groom   Stephanie Booker   Willem van Wyk 

Insolvency Law Journal update: Vol 33 Pt 2

By journalalerts on May 6, 2025

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Posted In:  Insolvency Law Journal (Insolv LJ)  Tagged:   Aaron Whittenbury   Bruce Markell   Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 1323   Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 477   Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) s 588FB   disclosure   Dr David Morrison   freezing orders   Jessica Wood   liquidation   Liquidators' Powers to Obtain Documents and Information   Mark Wellard   New Zealand   Patrick Quirk   Professor Lynne Taylor   Restraints on liquidators   Search orders   uncommercial transactions 

Insolvency Law Journal update: Vol 33 Pt 1

By journalalerts on May 6, 2025

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Posted In:  Insolvency Law Journal (Insolv LJ)  Tagged:   "personal" bankruptcy   Anne Wardell   corporate crime   Court powers to supervise liquidators and trustees   Dr David Morrison   Dr Garry J Hamilton   equitable liens   international transparency   minimal asset procedures   personal insolvency   Professor Lynne Taylor   Sulette Lombard   uplift fees 

Australian Law Journal update: Vol 99 Pt 4

By journalalerts on May 5, 2025

This Part of the Australian Law Journal includes the following articles: "The Trustee’s Duty of Care: To Fiduciary or Not to Fiduciary?" by Dr Glen Anderson, "The Duty to Have Regard to Context as a Force for Change in the Identification of Interpretative Factors" by Jeffrey Barnes, and "The Strawmen Trap: Non-Appearance and the Pitfalls of Pseudolaw" by Joe McIntyre, Harry Hobbs and Stephen Young. Sections include Current Issues with the subheadings, "Auschwitz and Lawyers", "An Opening of Law Term Address Draws National Attention", "Across the Pacific", "Amendments to Hate Speech Laws" and "A New Assistant General Editor". Other sections include Conveyancing and Property; “Joint Endeavour” Constructive Trust – Joudo v Joudo", Family Law; "Rethinking the Test for Bias in Family Law Proceedings"; Admiralty and Maritime; "Caught by a Time Limit: Amended Hague Rules Art III r 6", and a Personalia section. There are two book reviews, a review of "Reform: Australia’s Golden Era of Social and Legal Reform 1965–1995, The Memoir of a Participant" by Terry Purcell, and a review of "National Security Law in Australia", by Danielle Ireland-Piper.

Posted In:  Australian Law Journal, The (ALJ)  Tagged:   Brendan Edgeworth   Damien J Cremean   Glen Anderson   Harry Hobbs   he Trustee’s Duty of Care: To Fiduciary or Not to Fiduciary?   Jeffrey Barnes   Joe McIntyre   Justice Kunc   National Security Law in Australia   Reform: Australia’s Golden Era of Social and Legal Reform 1965–1995   Saskia O'Neill   Stephen Young   The Duty to Have Regard to Context as a Force for Change in the Identification of Interpretative Factors   The Strawmen Trap: Non-Appearance and the Pitfalls of Pseudolaw 

Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal update: Vol 33 Pt 3

By journalalerts on April 22, 2025

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Posted In:  Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal (ADRJ)  Tagged:   book review   David Spencer   Deidre Petrakis   Dorcas Quek Anderson   GPT-4   mediator   negotiation   party autonomy   Pauline Collins   Richard Chalik   Richard Garnett   Rosemary Gattuso   strategy 

Public Law Review update: Vol 36 Pt 1

By journalalerts on April 15, 2025

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Posted In:  Journals  Tagged:   and Evolving Treaty Partners   Andrew Erueti   articles   Book reviews   Brendan Lim   Brendan Walker-Munro   Comments   Dan Meagher   Defining National Security: Still a Non-justiciable Problem?   developments   Dr David Tan   Dr Santanu Sabhapandit   History and Values in YBFZ v Minister for Immigration - Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs   India Veevers   Interest and the Multifactorial Test in Standing for Judicial Review   Pravar Petkar   Professor Andrew Geddis   Proportionality and Facts in Constitutional Adjudication   Rebecca Ananian-Welsh   Referendums as Representative Democracy   Standards of MP Behaviour and Aotearoa New Zealand’s “Party Hopping” Law   The Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill   Tino Rangatiratanga in Post-Treaty Settlement Aotearoa - Challenges of Co-Governance   Yasmin Olsen   YBFZ v Minister for Immigration - Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs 

Public Law Review update: Vol 35 Pt 3

By journalalerts on April 15, 2025

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Posted In:  Journals  Tagged:   Andrew Geddis   Anne Carter   Cain v Doyle   Comments   Criminal Liability of the Crown: Cain v Doyle Explained   Dan Meagher   developments   Eamonn Moran   Economic Tendencies and the Identification and Definition of Constitutional Facts   Elected Officials and the Bias Rule   Evidential and Interpretative Issues Arising when a Federal Act Incorporates a Foreign Law   Farm Transparency and the Problem of Statutory Purpose in the Implied Freedom Test   India Veevers   Jayani Nadarajalingam   Jeffrey Barnes   Justice Emilios Kyrou   Matthew Groves   Sarah Sorial   Setting the Playing Field: Vanderstock   Shireen Morris   Speech   The Waitangi Tribunal’s Power to Summons Ministers of the Crown   What in Practical Terms Is Likely to Change in How Federal Merits Review Is Conducted? 

Public Law Review update: Vol 35 Pt 2

By journalalerts on April 15, 2025

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Posted In:  Journals  Tagged:   “You’ve Got Mail’ – Postal Voting   A Fresh Bridge - South Australia’s First Nations Voices   Adrienne Stone   Anna Olijnyk   articles   Aryan Mohseni   Comments   Cornelia Koch   Dan Meagher   developments   India Veevers   Jacinta Dharmananda   James Cameron   Julian R Murphy   Laboratory Federalism and Voluntary Assisted Dying in Australia   Madeleine Perrett   More than a Rule Book - Identity and the Australian Constitution   Narelle Miragliotta   Political Parties and Reform   Sarah Murray   Sliding Doors: Harvey and the Dual Legal Gateways to Extrinsic Materials   The Nature and Function of the Constitutional Injunction 

Public Law Review update: Vol 35 Pt 1

By journalalerts on April 15, 2025

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Posted In:  Journals  Tagged:   “Necessary” Interferences with the Implied Freedom of Political Communication in the Australian Constitution: How Proportionality is Reducing Judicial Review   Anthony Gray   articles   Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs (2023) 97 ALJR 1005 [2023] HCA 37   Comments   Continuity and Consistency in the Application of Fundamental Constitutional Principle: NZYQNZYQ v Minister for Immigration   Dan Meagher   Declarations of Inconsistency in the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990: The New Zealand Bill of Rights (Declarations of Inconsistency) Amendment Act 2022   developments   Emily Hammond   Felicity Nagorcka   India Veevers   Jonathan Tjandra   Kris Gledhill   New Zealand Bill of Rights (Declarations of Inconsistency) Amendment Act 2022   New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990   NZYQNZYQ v Minister for Immigration   Sarah Spottiswood   The Freedom of Interstate Intercourse: A Critical Appraisal of Palmer v Western Australia through a Return to Cole v Whitfield   The Prudential Approach to Constitutional Adjudication   Triston Qian   Vanderstock v Victoria   Vanderstock v Victoria: Free Trade and Federalism 
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