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Thu Aug 25 2016
  • University of Tasmania Law Review Vol 35 No 1
  • Hong Kong Lawyer - August
  • Criminal Law Review - August
  • Counsel - August
  • Lawyers Weekly

New As Made Legislation

Thu Aug 25 2016

Is the Library of Things an answer to our peak stuff problem?

Thu Aug 25 2016

Why buy when you can borrow? A new kind of library is gaining popularity in the UK, and the idea is one that could change the way we all live.

"Library of Things" is a friendly space where you can borrow, share and learn with your community. This new social enterprise lending everything from spades to wetsuits is one of a new breed of organisations pitched as a democratic alternative to Uber and Airbnb.

The concept is simple, says 26 year-old co-founder Rebecca Trevalyan. Anyone can become a member, it’s free to join, and up to five items can be borrowed per week. The carpet cleaner is one of the more expensive items but most are charged out at somewhere between £2 (for a garden fork) and £4 (for a bread maker). All are listed in its online catalogue. “The way the Library of Things works is that we own all the things ... and people come to borrow them at a very low cost,” says Trevalyan, who balances her time with a day-job at Impact Hub, a collective of social entrepreneurs and activists in Brixton. “All the items are priced depending on their value and how much people want to borrow them.”

What a great idea! Read the full story here via The Guardian

Latest Law Reports

Thu Aug 25 2016
  • Weekly Law Reports Part 27
  • Commonwealth Law Reports Vol 256 Part 1
  • Federal Court Reports Vol 238 Part 4
  • Family Law reports Vol 54 Part 4
  • Lloyd's Law Reports Vol 2 Part 2
  • The Law Reports ICLR Part 7

Franz Kafka literary legal battle ends as Israel's high court rules in favor of library

Thu Aug 18 2016

Israel’s supreme court has ruled that Franz Kafka’s manuscripts are the property of the National Library of Israel, ending a lengthy legal battle, judicial sources said in Monday.

The nation’s top court on Sunday rejected an appeal by the heirs of Max Brod, a friend of Kafka and the executor of his estate to whom he had willed his manuscripts after his death in 1924.

Kafka had instructed Brod to burn the manuscripts after his death but his friend did not honor that request and took them with him when he fled the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939 and emigrated to Palestine.

n his death in 1968, Brod bequeathed the papers to his secretary Esther Hoffe, with instructions to give them to the “Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the municipal library in Tel Aviv or another organization in Israel or abroad”.

But Hoffe, who died in 2007, instead kept them and shared them between her two daughters – sparking multiple legal battles.

Read the full story via the guardian

Latest Law Reports

Thu Aug 18 2016
  • Federal Court Reports 238 (3)
  • Commonwealth Law Reports 255 (4)
  • NSW Law reports 90 (5)
  • Lloyds Law Reports (Insurance & Reassurance) 6 (1)

New As Made Legislation

Thu Aug 18 2016

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Latest Journal Titles

Wed Aug 17 2016
  • Commonwealth Law Bulletin Volume 42 No 2
  • Brief Volume 43 No 7
  • The Economist

Did you know..

Thu Aug 11 2016

You have access to resources such as HeinOnline.org and the ASX Listing Rules via the Bar Library website? Our external subscription databases are available for you to use from any location in Australia, via the internet!

HeinOnline is a source for traditional legal materials (reported cases, statutes, government regulations, academic law reviews, commercially produced law journals and magazines, and classic treatises), historical, governmental, and political documents, legislative debates, legislative and executive branch reports, world constitutions, international treaties, and reports and other documents of international organizations. The database includes more than 100 million pages of materials “in an online, fully searchable, image-based format.

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New Titles

Thu Aug 11 2016

New As Made Legislation

Thu Aug 11 2016

Latest Law Reports

Thu Aug 11 2016
  • Federal Court reports (August 2016) Vol 238 Part 3
  • Lloyd's law reports - Insurance & reinsurance 2016 Part 6
  • Criminal Appeal Reports 2016 Part 2
  • District Court Law Reports (NSW) Vol 22 Part 1

Latest Journal Titles

Thu Aug 11 2016
  • Choice Magazine - August
  • The New Zealand Law Journal - July
  • Taxation in Australia - August
  • AIAL Forum no 84

The Australia Law Journal

Thu Aug 04 2016

Issue number 5 for 2016 of the Australian Law Journal / ALJR has been released. Articles include

  • "Retirement of the Hon Peter W Young AO QC: Seventh Editor of the Australian Law Journal" by Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG
  • "The Interaction of statute law and common law" by Hon Sir Anthony Mason AC KBE GBM
  • Contours and prospects for Indigenous recognition in the Australian Constitution and why it matters" By Fr Frank Brennan SJ AO.

High Court reports:

  • Cloverdale v West Coast Council
  • Fischer v Nemeske Pty Ltd
  • IMM v The Queen
  • Mok v DPP (NSW)
  • Obeid v The Queen
  • Obeid v The Queen (No.2)
  • Zaburoni v The Queen
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