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To purchase an article, please email: LTA.Service@thomsonreuters.com<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0or\u00c2\u00a0contact us on 1300 304 195\u00c2\u00a0(Australian customers) or +61 2 8587 7980\u00c2\u00a0(international customers) during business hours\u00c2\u00a0(Mon-Fri, 8am-6pm AEST).<\/p>\n The latest issue of the\u00c2\u00a0Australian Law Journal<\/em> (Volume 91 Part 10) contains the following material:<\/p>\n CURRENT ISSUES<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Editor: Justice Fran\u00c3\u00a7ois Kunc <\/strong><\/p>\n CONVEYANCING AND PROPERTY<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Editors: Robert Angyal SC and Brendan Edgeworth <\/strong><\/p>\n AROUND THE NATION: VICTORIA<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Editor: Justice Clyde Croft <\/strong><\/p>\n COMPETITION AND CONSUMER LAW<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Editor: Robert Baxt AO <\/strong><\/p>\n RECENT CASES<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Editor: Ruth C A Higgins <\/strong><\/p>\n Conscience, Fair-Dealing and Commerce: Parliaments and the Courts<\/strong><\/em><\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c<\/strong><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0Chief Justice James Allsop AO<\/p>\n While commerce is an activity typically driven by self-interest, its proper functioning is underpinned by values of trust and co-operation, honesty, reasonableness, fairness and certainty. This article looks to the sources and nature of the values that underpin commercial life and their expression in commercial law through the development of certain principles and rules of the common law, Equity and Admiralty. These include the way in which contractual good faith or fair-dealing might be seen and engaged as an organising or informing principle of commercial law; notions of fairness in maritime law; conscience and unconscionability in the operation of equitable doctrine; and the development of a business or trade conscience in statutory provisions, including in consumer law.<\/p>\n The Decline and Fall of Australia’s Law Reform Institutions \u00e2\u20ac\u201c And the Prospects of Revival<\/strong><\/em><\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c<\/strong><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG<\/p>\n Drawing on the history of judicial and institutional law reform in Australia and other common law countries, the author recalls the heyday of the law reform commissions (LRCs) in the 1980s-1990s. He then describes the decline in the size, activities and support for LRCs in Australia. He postulates the reasons for this decline and the resulting diminution in professional, academic and public involvement in law reform. The particular seriousness of this development in Australia is suggested and the need to reinvest in LRCs is urged. The prognosis is guarded.<\/p>\n BOOK REVIEWS<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Editor: Angelina Gomez <\/strong><\/p>\n For the PDF\u00c2\u00a0version of the table of contents, click here: ALJ Vol 91 No 10 Contents<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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