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Latest Law Reports

Fri Apr 28 2017

Commonwealth Law Reports Cases reported:

  • Alcan Grove Prt Ltd v Zabic
  • IMM v The Queen
  • Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission v May
  • Mok v DPP (NSW)

New Zealand Law Reports Cases reported:

  • Attorney-General v Problem Gambling Foundation of New Zealand
  • Cynget Farms Ltd v ANZ Bank New Zealand Ltd
  • Underwood v R

Wills & Trusts Law Reports Cases reported:

  • Adepoju v Akinols
  • Re JS (Disposal of body)
  • Slattery v Jagger & Ors

News etc

Fri Apr 28 2017
  • Former Nauru MPs seek to subpoena Adeang The trial of former Nauru MPs, charged nearly two years ago over an anti-government protest was set to start last week, and the former MPs are asking the court to enforce subpoenas for the Justice Minister, David Adeang, the secretary of justice and three people in the Nauru media.

  • Backyard skinny-dippers lack effective laws to keep peeping drones at bay Recent advances in technology mean we can no longer rely on fences or barriers around our homes to protect our privacy, and one skinny dipping Darwin woman has found out the hard way. Has technology has left law behind?

  • Copyright law forgot schools & libraries The federal parliament recently made some long-overdue updates to Australia’s copyright laws, dragging them out of the spirit-soaked days of duplicating machines and into the digital era. But there is still one area where educational institutions face the threat of being sued by copyright owners... Illegal downloads.

NSW Legislation Updates

Fri Apr 28 2017

Latest Journals

Fri Apr 28 2017
  • Australian Property Law Journal - Vol 26 Part 1 - In this issue: Draw conclusions on the wall — Defence of the monumented cadastre / Proprietary estoppel and family provision: Competing moral obligations / Trustees’ bare legal title: Concept or misconception? / Loosening the screws: Should the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) be amended to include fixture provisions

  • Insurance Law Journal - Volume 28 Part 2 - Good faith in insurance law: General and independent, not a duty but an interpretative principle / PD — Degree of certainty — Unlike ever — Never say never / Contract works insurance: Faulty workmanship exclusions and scratched glass claims

  • AIAL Forum - April 2017 - In this Issue:Statutory powers and constitutionally protected freedoms / Commonwealth ombudsman improving public administration through oversight / striking the right balance FOI and the contemporary world of government practice / Holding regulators to account in the NSW pollution law / The intersectionality of domestic and global accountability / Judicial review of administrative action / Public interest advocacy in the Australian competition tribunal

  • Civil Justice Quarterly - April 2017 -In this issue: Some current issues in Class Actions / 25 years of Australian Class Actions / Arming the courts in collective redress - A move to "Australian style" Class Actions in the UK / Fiduciaries and Funders Litigation funders in Australian Class Actions

  • Judicial Officers Bulletin - April 2017 - In this issue: Impartiality and emotion in judicial work / Recent decisions / Judicial moves

News etc

Fri Apr 21 2017

Latest Law Reports

Fri Apr 21 2017
  • Fleet Street Reports 2017 Part 4 Cases reported:
  • Anan Kasei Co Ltd v Molycorp Chemicals & Oxides (Europe) Ltd [2017] 44 FSR 281
  • Seven Towns Ltd v Kiddiland [2017] 44 FSR 298
  • Simba Toys GMBH & Co KG v European Union Intellectual Property Office [2017] 44 FSR 329
  • Criminal Appeal Reports 2017 Part 3 Cases reported:
  • R v Brandford [2017] 1 Cr App R 197
  • R v Sardar [2017] 1 Cr App R 216
  • Ivey v Genting Casinos UK Ltd (Trading as Crockfords Club) [2017] 1 Cr App R 232
  • R c Qosja [2017] 1 Cr App R 264
  • R v Golds [2017] 1 Cr App R 273
  • R v France [2017] 1 Cr App R 296 R v C and Others (Trade Mark) [2017] 1 Cr App R 306

Latest Journals

Fri Apr 21 2017
  • GAR (Global Arbitration Review) Journal 2017 Vol 12(1) In this issue: The March of the robots: When international arbitration meets artificial intelligence / Choose arbitration: 20 years of England's 1996 act / Menon's lessons from the Croatia-Slovenia case / Born: Is there a substitute for experience

  • Public Law (April) 2017 In this Issue: Judicial Retirement ages in the UK: Legitimate aims and proportionate means? / Reconsidering mandatory reconsideration / The outer limits of English Judicial review / Unashamed liberalism: Liberal, Illiberal and Anti-liberal minorities

Latest Journals

Thu Apr 13 2017
  • Proctor 2017 Vol 37(3) In this issue: How binding are standard terms? / Toward better justice for children / Family Court recognises parents under US surrogacy order / Reflections in a legal mirror

  • Law Institute Journal 2017 Vol 91(4) In this issue: Lawyers going bush / Trouble in youth detention centres / Restorative justice in the Children's Court

  • Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law 2017 Vol 25(1) In this issue: Triple A rated? regulating online information disclosures / Is there a gap in the unfair contract term provisions between a "consumer contract" and a "small business contract"? / The Cartelist's dilemma: leniency policies and game theory

  • Public Law (April) 2017 In this Issue: Judicial Retirement ages in the UK: Legitimate aims and proportionate means? / Reconsidering mandatory reconsideration / The outer limits of English Judicial review / Unashamed liberalism: Liberal, Illiberal and Anti-liberal minorities

News etc

Thu Apr 13 2017
  • Councils fighting mergers could face multiple polls Voters at 15 NSW councils in the middle of legal fights against mergers will nonetheless go to the polls this year, in elections that will cost millions and which critics say could have to be repeated within a year.

  • United Airlines isn't alone in overbooking. It's legal in Australia and 'fairly common' You've paid for your seat, turned up on time and next minute you're being asked to leave the plane. That's what happened to a passenger on United Airlines because the plane was overbooked — but he was literally dragged off the flight when he refused to move! Overbooking happens in Australia too, in fact an expert says it's fairly common. And while airlines here differ on what happens next, you might be able to turn the situation to your advantage.

  • Legal Aid Funding Crisis Calls by academic lawyers, lawyer organisations and legal assistance organisations for increased funding in the May budget for legal aid and a reversal of proposed community legal centre funding cuts should be heeded by the federal government,

Database of Human Rights Treaties

Thu Apr 13 2017

A group of UVA law librarians, faculty, and alumni have assembled a database of drafting histories from the major post-World War II human rights treaties.

At the “What’s Next for Human Rights Scholarship?” conference on March 31, law librarians Ben Doherty and Loren Moulds presented the Law Library’s new searchable database of preparatory works, or travaux préparatoires, of the United Nations’ core human rights agreements. Until the Law Library undertook the initiative, the travaux were only selectively available in electronic format, as excerpts in published guides to the travaux, and in hardcopy or microfiche at U.N. depository libraries.

The database will allow international law scholars, lawyers, and students around the world to study the origins and influences of several key sources of international law.

Latest Law Reports

Thu Apr 13 2017
  • Building Law Reports: Part 2 [2017] Contents:
  • Bitumen Invest AS v Richmond Mercantile Ltd
  • Dacy BUilding Services Ltd v IDM Properties LLP
  • Energy Solutions EU Ltd v Nuclear Decommissioning Authority
  • Octoesse LLP v Trak Special Projects Ltd
  • Willmott Dixon Construction Ltd v Robert West Consulting Ltd

NSW Legislation Updates

Fri Apr 07 2017

Latest Law Reports

Fri Apr 07 2017
  • Intellectual Property Reports (March 2017) 121 IPR 349-538 - Table of Cases Reported:
  • Alphapharm Pty Ltd v Gilead Sciences Inc (IP Aust — S D Barker)
  • Andando Pty Ltd v DDT Liners (Australia) Pty Ltd (IP Aust — B Irgang)
  • Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd (ACN 001 660 715) v Global Gaming Supplies Pty Ltd (ACN 008 548 589) (FCAFC — Full Court)
  • Bing Boy IP Pty Ltd v Bing Go Street Food (IP Aust — C Condon)
  • Cartier InternationalAG v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd (HC14 C001056) (EWCA Civ—Full Court)
  • Cartier International AG v British Sky Broadcasting Ltd (EWCA Civ — Full Court)
  • CFX Funds Management Pty Ltd v McMahon (IP Aust — M Kirov) Coca-Cola Co v Frucor Beverages Ltd (IP Aust — M Kirov)
  • Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation v Agriculture Victoria Services Pty Ltd (IP Aust — L L Press)
  • Dyno Nobel Inc v Orica Explosives Technology Pty Ltd (IP Aust — O L Haggar) (2016) 121.191
  • ExxonMobil Upstream Research Co v Shell Internationale Research Maatschappij BV (IP Aust — S D Barker)
  • Fodmap Pty Ltd v Monash University (IP Aust — A Richards)

  • Australian Law Reports (2017) 340 ALR 550-621 - Table of Cases reported:

  • Agricultural Societies Council of NSW Ltd v Christie (NSWCA— Full Court)
  • Australian Careers Institute Pty Ltd v Australian Institute of Fitness Pty Ltd (NSWCA— Full
  • Court)
  • Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Reckitt Benckiser (Australia) Pty Ltd (ACN
  • 003 274 655) (FCAFC — Full Court)
  • Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Drake (No 2)
  • Burroughs v Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA)
  • Culbong v Native Title Registrar WAD 140 of 2016 (FCAFC — Full Court)
  • Eades v Native Title Registrar WAD 138 of 2016 (FCAFC — Full Court)
  • Elecnet (Aust) Pty Ltd (as trustee for the Electrical Industry Severance Scheme) v Commissioner of Taxation (HCA — Full Court)
  • McGlade (formerly Wanjurri-Nungala) v Native Title Registrar WAD 137 of 2016
  • Mercanti v Mercanti (HCA — Kiefel J)
  • Mercanti v Mercanti (WASCA — Full Court)
  • National Australia Bank Ltd (ACN 004 044 937) v Garrett (in his own capacity and in his capacity as trustee of each of the Andrew Garrett Family Trust No 4, the Andrew Garrett Family Trust
  • No 3, the Andrew Garrett Family Trust No 2, and the Andrew Garrett Family Trust) (FCA — Beach J)
  • Re Questions referred to the Court of Disputed Returns pursuant to section 376 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (Cth) concerning Robert John DayAO (HCA—Gordon J)
  • Re Questions referred to the Court of Disputed Returns pursuant to section 376 of the
  • Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (Cth) concerning Senator Rodney Norman Culleton (HCA — Gageler J)
  • RP v R (HCA — Full Court)
  • Smith v Native Title Registrar WAD 139 of 2016 (FCAFC — Full Court)
  • Southern Han Breakfast Point Pty Ltd (in liq) v Lewence Construction Pty Ltd (HCA— Full Court)
  • Treasury Wine Estates Vintners Ltd (ACN 004 094 599) v Garrett (in his own capacity and in his capacity as trustee of each of the Andrew Garrett Family Trust No 4, the Andrew Garrett Family
  • Trust No 3, the Andrew Garrett Family Trust No 2, and the Andrew Garrett Family Trust) (FCA — Beach J)
  • TSG Franchise Management Pty Ltd v Cigarette & Gift Warehouse (Franchising) Pty Ltd (No 2) (FCA — Davies J)

News etc

Fri Apr 07 2017
  • Judge raps silk for calling Seven ‘one of the biggest boys’ clubs’ - Top human rights silk Julian Burnside QC was reprimanded in court yesterday for accusing Seven of being “one of the country’s biggest boys’ clubs” as he continued his defence of the former lover of Seven West Media boss Tim Worner.

  • Criminal barrister looks back on a blind man's bluff - Carl Synnerdahl was a professional criminal. He was a very active criminal. He was a "heavy''. His lengthy criminal record chronicled many occasions when his planning of crimes had failed. A stretch in prison, therefore, was just looked upon as being an occupational hazard.

  • Lifeline for NSW community legal centres - The Law Society of NSW has applauded the state government’s decision to provide a $6 million ‘rescue package’ to community legal centres.

  • Diverse views aplenty on the future of legal profession - Several industry experts have shared what they believe will be the biggest challenges for the legal profession in years to come, demonstrating varied standpoints on diversity, the future of mid-tiers, cyber-security, artificial intelligence, technology, mental health and collaborations, to name a few.