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Australian Law Journal update: Vol 99 Pt 3

By journalalerts on April 14, 2025

This Australian Law Journal Part is a Special Edition presenting papers from the BFSLA Academic Committee Symposium 2024, guest edited by Dr Nuncio D'Angelo. It includes the following articles: "Australian Appellate Courts on PPSA: A Decade of Experience" by Sheelagh McCracken, "Banks, Authorised Push Payment Scams and Models for Compensation" by Jeannie Marie Paterson, "Protecting Individual Investors: A Comparative Approach" by Jodi Gardner, "The Ghosts of Livingston’s Case: Analysing the Beneficial Interest of a Former Trustee In Trust Assets Held by A Successor Trustee" by Allison Silink, "The Test for Insolvency and Long-term Future Debt: Is Time A Resource?" by Mark Wellard, and "A Regulatory Sandbox for Financial Market Infrastructures in Australia: Key Considerations" by Anton Didenko.

Posted In:  Australian Law Journal, The (ALJ)  Tagged:   A Regulatory Sandbox for Financial Market Infrastructures in Australia: Key Considerations   Allison Silink   Anton Didenko   Australian Appellate Courts on PPSA: A Decade of Experience   Banks Authorised Push Payment Scams and Models for Compensation   Jeannie Marie Paterson   Jodi Gardner   Justice Kunc   Mark Wellard   Nuncio D'Angelo   Protecting Individual Investors: A Comparative Approach   Sheelagh McCracken   The Ghosts of Livingston’s Case: Analysing the Beneficial Interest of a Former Trustee In Trust Assets Held by A Successor Trustee   The Test for Insolvency and Long-term Future Debt: Is Time A Resource? 

Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law update: Vol 33 Pt 1

By journalalerts on April 11, 2025

The latest Part of the Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law includes the following articles: Competition and Consumer Issues from Artificial Intelligence Foundation Models – Katharine Kemp; and The Evidence Base for Tightening Australia’s Merger Laws – Chris Whelan Also in this Part are the following sections: Editorial: Obstetricians Help Deliver a Legal Precedent; Administrative and Competition Policy: AI-Powered Pricing Algorithms: Be Alert, Not Alarmed – Dr Luke Wainscoat; Consumer Protection: Beware the User Manual: Ventilator Shortages during COVID – Patrick Quirk; Telecommunications: Google and the Vexed Nexus between Competition Law and Privacy Law – Holly Raiche; Comments from Commerce: Is the Small Business Sector Disappearing? – Elizabeth [Liz] Greenwood; Consumer Concerns: Intelligent Design: The Need for Fit-for-Purpose Laws to Regulate AI – Dr Rafi Alam; Report from Asia: Review of Japan’s Ex-Ante Smartphone Software Legislation – Joe Scarcella and Henry Lynch; and Report from Europe: The European Commission’s Draft Guidelines on the Application of Art 102 of the TFEU to Abusive Exclusionary Conduct By Dominant Companies – Overview – Tom S Pick and Britt Gerritsen.

Posted In:  Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law (AJCCL)  Tagged:   Administrative and Competition Policy   AI-Powered Pricing Algorithms: Be Alert - Not Alarmed   Andrew Christopher   Bernard McCabe   Beware the User Manual: Ventilator Shortages during COVID   Britt Gerritsen   Chris Whelan   Comments from Commerce   Competition and Consumer Issues from Artificial Intelligence Foundation Models   Consumer concerns   Consumer Protection   Dr Luke Wainscoat   Dr Rafi Alam   Editorial   Elizabeth (Liz) Greenwood   Google and the Vexed Nexus between Competition Law and Privacy Law   Henry Lynch   Holly Raiche   Intelligent Design: The Need for Fit-for-Purpose Laws to Regulate AI   Is the Small Business Sector Disappearing?   Joe Scarcella   Katharine Kemp   Obstetricians Help Deliver a Legal Precedent   Patrick Quirk   Professor Niloufer Selvadurai   Report from Asia   Report from Europe   Review of Japan’s Ex-Ante Smartphone Software Legislation   Telecommunications   The European Commission’s Draft Guidelines on the Application of Art 102 of the TFEU to Abusive Exclusionary Conduct By Dominant Companies – Overview   The Evidence Base for Tightening Australia’s Merger Laws   Tom Pick 

Journal of Law and Medicine update: Vol 31 Pt 4

By journalalerts on April 10, 2025

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Posted In:  Journal of Law and Medicine (JLM)  Tagged:   A Doctor’s Death by Central Chest Stabbing – Suicide or Murder?   Access to General Practice Data for Research in Australia: The Need for Greater Clarity in Relation to Privacy and Confidentiality   Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease: Public Health Insights from Coroners’ Inquests   AI   AI and Expert Medical Evidence   Allan Cala   and Other Defences   Annette Braunack-Mayer   ARF   Assumption of Risk   Ben White   book review   Cameron Stewart   Carolyn Adams   Christine Forster   Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and the Characterisation of “Obvious Risk of Harm”: Dangerous Recreational Activity   Coronial Oversight of the Operation of and Access to Voluntary Assisted Dying Regimes   CTE   David Ranson   David Thorpe   Do Right and Fear No One: A Life Dedicated to Fighting for Justice   Dr Karen Mahlo   End-of-Life Decisions and the Need for Greater Rigour in the Determination of a Child’s Best Interests   Ethics and the Law: Parliamentary Debates on Suicide in South Australia   Felicity Flack   H v OL [2024] NSWSC 271   Ian Freckelton AO KC   James Cameron   Jennifer Schulz   Joanna Manning   Julian Savulescu   Kate Leeson   L Thomas   Legal Issues in End-of-Life Care for Paramedics: A Scoping Review   Lindy Willmott   Margaret Brown   New Zealand’s Once-visionary Accident Compensation Scheme and Australia’s Revolutionary Vision in Its National Disability Insurance Scheme: A Tale of Two Countries   Privacy Act 1988 (Cth)   Professor Ian Freckelton AO KC   Rachel Feeney   RHD   Russ Scott   SGB   suicide   Understanding Legal Barriers to Abortion Access During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Australian Pregnant People’s Experiences   VAD 

Journal of Law and Medicine update: Vol 31 Pt 3

By journalalerts on April 10, 2025

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Posted In:  Journal of Law and Medicine (JLM)  Tagged:   ‘Truly   Aaron Salter   abortion wars   Affifa Farrukh   Andrea Gilkison   Anthony Levin   Australia   Bashi Hazard   Bernadette McSherry   book review   Cameron Stewart   Charles Lawson   Christina ET Pikiuha-Billing   Christopher Brook   Christopher Rudge   Cough Syncope and Fatal Motor Vehicle Accidents: Two Australian Cases   Damien Linnane   Deception and Fraud in the Justification of “Pediatric Drug Development”: A Challenge at the Interface of Medicine and Law   Decisions about Medical Treatment and Care   Deeply’: Using Law to Compel Health and Lifestyle Influencers to Tell the Truth   Does the Failure to Provide Equitable Access to Treatment Lead to Action by NHS Organisations? The Case of Biologics for South Asians with Inflammatory Bowel Disease   Earl B Ettienne   Edwin Bikundo   Emilio Russo   forensic psychologists   Hannah Dahlen   Hazel Keedle   Ian Freckelton AO KC   Injecting Tighter Regulation: Implications of the TGA’s Clampdown on Cosmetic Injectables Advertising   Is the Time Right to Enact Autonomy-Only Assisted Dying Laws?   Jane M Grant-Kels   Jayne Hewitt   Jo-anne Todd   John Mayberry   Jonathan Burdon   Kerry J Breen   Kerstin Braun   Klaus Rose   Laurie Grealish   Madly   Margaret Faux   Marilyn Bromberg   Mark Cross   Medical Termination of Pregnancy: Law and Controversies in the United States and Australia   Mental State: Navigating Australia's Insane Mental Health System and How to Fix It   Mike O'Connor   Pasquale Striano   Peter Trembath   Piers Gooding   Predicting the Risk of Future Terrorism: Lessons for Mental Health Experts from the Benbrika Case   Professor Ian Freckelton AO KC   Psychological Screening of Medical School Applicants and Medical Students   Ronli Sifris   Section 19(2) of the Health Insurance Act 1973 Prevents Prisoners Accessing Medicare: Fact or Fiction?   Susanne Armour   Tasering Patients – A Bioethical Assessment of Taser Use Against Mental Health Inpatients in New Zealand   Termination Laws in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand – Do They Align with Midwives’ Scope of Practice?   TGA   the Legality Assumptions and Sovereign Power – Empowering Patients Out of the State of Bare Life?   Todd Berry   VAD   VERA-2R   Violent Extremism Risk Assessment tool   Voluntary Assisted Dying and Conscientious Objection: An Analysis from Victoria 

Journal of Law and Medicine update: Vol 31 Pt 2

By journalalerts on April 10, 2025

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Posted In:  Journal of Law and Medicine (JLM)  Tagged:   Advertising and Inventing (Anna)rexia   Amee Baird   art   book review   Brendan Walker-Munro   CFTRm   Challenging Pandemic Law: From Vaccine Mandates to Judicial Review of Vaccine Approvals   Christopher Rudge   Clara Gaff   COVID-19   Criminal Code Act 1995 (Cth)   Cystic Fibrosis and the Law: The Ramifications of New Treatments   Dassi Erlich   Denial of Desire for Death in Dementia: Why Is Dementia Excluded from Australian Voluntary Assisted Dying Legislation?   Dianne Nicol   ECT   ETI   Guardianship and Administration Act 2019 (Vic)   Ian Freckelton AO KC   In Bad Faith   Informed Consent and the Duty to Warn: More than the Mere Provision of Information   Insight and the Capacity to Refuse Treatment with Electroconvulsive Therapy   Julia Matteo   Keeley Reade   Kerstin Braun   Legal and Social Implications   Malcolm Smith   Margaret Otlowski   Marilyn Bromberg   media   Medical Treatment Planning and Decisions Act 2016 (Vic)   Michaela Okninski   Moving Genomics into the Clinic: Platforms for Implementing Clinical Genomic Data-Sharing in Ways That Address Ethical   Natalie Thorne   Neurocognitive Disorders: Medical Illness or Mental Disorder: Examining the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act 2022 (Vic) Using Neurocognitive Disorders   Professor Ian Freckelton AO KC   Rajesh Gounder   Re ICO [2023] QMHC 1   Recent Australian Legislative Developments in the Regulation of Assisted Reproductive Technology   Rohan Wee   Rojina Parchizadeh   Russ Scott   Safe Access Zone Legislation and Its Compliance with the Human Rights of Anti- Abortion Protesters in Australia   Sarah Butcher   Steve Prowacki   Synthetic Biology and National Security   TGA   VAD   Virtual Labs and Designer Bugs – Generative AI   Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2021 (SA) 

Journal of Law and Medicine update: Vol 31 Pt 1

By journalalerts on April 10, 2025

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Posted In:  Journal of Law and Medicine (JLM)  Tagged:   Addressing a Human Rights Crisis: Health Care for Prisoners in Australia   Banning Engineered Stone: A Landmark Australian Public Health Law Reform   book review   Cameron Stewart   Chris Corns   Christopher Rudge   Clinical Teaching and Consent: An Analysis of New Zealand’s Legal Requirements for Obtaining Consent to Clinical Teaching Involving Consumers of Health and Disability Services   engineered/artificial stone   Erwin Loh   Facilitating Safe Access to Health Care through Legislative Reform – The Australian Experience   Gabrielle Wolf   How Does Narcotic Control Impact upon Human Individual Rights: An Islamic and International Human Rights Perspectives   Ian Freckelton AO KC   inaccia v The Queen (2022) 70 VR 36; [2022] VSCA 107   Jackie Dent   James Tibballs   Jonna-Susan Mathiessen   Lydia Wadsworth   Medical and Legal Uncertainties and Controversies in “Shaken Baby Syndrome” or Infant “Abusive Head Trauma”   Medical Board of Australia v Gruner   Mike O'Connor   Mirko Bagaric   Neera Bhatia   New Zealand’s Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers’ Rights   Nicolas Cavasinni   Owen M Bradfield   Patrick Foong   Professional Standards for Specialist Medical Administrators: Over-the-top Downunder?   Professor Ian Freckelton AO KC   Regulatory Consequences and Preventive Strategies   Ronli Sifris   Sarah Balto   Sexual Boundary Violations by Doctors – Context   Tania Penovic   The Anatomy Act 1977 (NSW) Dissected: Review and Reform   The Great Dead Body Teachers: An Adventure into the World of Anatomy and Dissection   Untested Stem Cell Treatments: An Analysis of Australia’s Current Regulatory Regime   When is a Health Practitioner Not “a Fit and Proper Person” to Practise Their Health Profession in Australia? 

Australian Intellectual Property Journal update: Vol 35 Pt 2

By journalalerts on April 7, 2025

The latest Part of the Australian Intellectual Property Journal includes the following articles: "Towards a Sustainable Patent System and Society" by António Campinos, "Access to Vaccines and Intellectual Property Reform" by Christopher Arup, "Inventive Step’s Origin Story: Taking an Inventive Step … Step by Step Part I" by Benjamin Hopper. Also in this Part is the following section: Editorial.

Posted In:  Australian Intellectual Property Journal (AIPJ)  Tagged:   50 years of the European Patent Convention   access to vaccines   access to vaccines and intellectual property reform   additions or combinations   AIPJ   António Campinos   Australian copyright law   Australian Intellectual Property Journal   Ben Hopper   Benjamin Hopper   Chris Arup   Christopher Arup   competitiveness in Europe   David Brennan   David J Brennan   David Lindsay   determining the non-obvious inventive step   Dianne Nicol   doctrine of patent law   EPC   EPO   EPO Strategic Plan 2028   European Patent Convention   European Patent Convention member states   European Patent Office   European Patent Organisation   European patents   hypothetical person seeking patents for new arts   intellectual property and health emergencies   intellectual property competition   intellectual property contracts   intellectual property contracts between governments and producers   intellectual property law   intellectual property reform   intellectual property rights   inventive contribution of inventor   inventive step   inventive step's origin story   inventiveness or non-obviousness of the step   IP law   Mariana Mazzucato   Mariana Mazzucato’s model of co-investment and collaboration   objective test   pandemic   patent law   patent system   persons seeking patents for inventions of improvements   President of the EPO   step that was not obvious during invention   sustainability   sustainable European Patent Organisation   sustainable patent system 

Building and Construction Law Journal update: Vol 40 Pt 1

By journalalerts on April 4, 2025

The latest part of the Building and Construction Journal contains editorial by the general editor Michael Christie SC; article The Enforceability of Termination for Convenience Clauses and the Unfair Contract Terms Regime by Laina Chan; case note Federal Court Decouples Bankruptcy from Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Adjudication Decisions: Smith v Achieve Homes Pty Ltd by Harry Fenton; reports, Alliance Building and Construction Pty Ltd v Veesaunt Property Syndicate 1 Pty Ltd by Jonathan Adamopoulos, EnerMech Pty Ltd v Acciona Infrastructure Projects Australia Pty Ltd & Ors by Holly Scott, Capitalink Pty Ltd v Withnall by Lucas Shipway, Forte Sydney Carlingford Development Pty Ltd v Forte Sydney Carlingford Pty Ltd by Daniel J. Morris.

Posted In:  Building and Construction Law Journal (BCL)  Tagged:   Alliance Building and Construction Pty Ltd v Veesaunt Property Syndicate 1 Pty Ltd   Article   book review   Capitalink Pty Ltd v Withnall   Case Note   Construction Law (4th ed) by Julian Bailey reviewed by Michael Christie   Daniel J. Morris   Editorial   EnerMech Pty Ltd v Acciona Infrastructure Projects Australia Pty Ltd & Ors   Federal Court Decouples Bankruptcy from Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Adjudication Decisions: Smith v Achieve Homes Pty Ltd   Forte Sydney Carlingford Development Pty Ltd v Forte Sydney Carlingford Pty Ltd   Harry Fenton   Headnotes   Holly Scott   Jonathan Adamopoulos   Laina Chan   Lucas Shipway   Michael Christie   The Enforceability of Termination for Convenience Clauses and the Unfair Contract Terms Regime 

Australian Law Journal update: Vol 99 Pt 2

By journalalerts on March 19, 2025

This Part of the Australian Law Journal includes the following articles: "Resolving Statutory Overlap in the Superannuation System" by M Scott Donald and Aryan Mohseni and "The Increasing Intersection of Class Action and Regulatory Proceedings and Its Implications for the Operation and Utility of Australia’s Class Action Regime" by Simon Hochreiter. Sections include Current Issues with the subheadings, "Two new Chief Justices", and "AI - Practice Notes and Other Developments". Other sections include Conveyancing and Property; "When Is a Strata Bylaw “Unjust”: Owners Corporation SP6534 v Elkhouri [2024] NSWCA 279?", updates on Environmental Law, Around the Nation - Northern Territory, and Around the Nation - Western Australia. There are two book reviews, a review of "The American Law Institute: A Centennial History", edited by Andrew S Gold and Robert W Gordon, and a review of "Sister Liguori: The Nun Who Divided a Nation", by Jeff Kildea.

Posted In:  Australian Law Journal, The (ALJ)  Tagged:   ALJ   articles   Aryan Mohseni   book review   Brendan Edgeworth   Conveyancing and property   Current issues   Hon Dean Mildren   Justice Kunc   Justice Pepper   M Scott Donald   Resolving Statutory Overlap in the Superannuation System   Robert Angyal   Simon Hochreiter   The Increasing Intersection of Class Action and Regulatory Proceedings and Its Implications for the Operation and Utility of Australia’s Class Action Regime 
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