The Library Bulletin

• Residential tenancies law and practice New South Wales / Allan Anforth, Peter Christensen and Christopher Adkinshttp (7th ed)
• Contractual estoppel / Alexander Trukhtanov
• Strata title property rights : private governance of multi-owned properties / Cathy Sherry

• Barnaby Joyce nominated for Kiwi of the year award Embattled Deputy Prime Minister, Barnaby Joyce, is the second-most nominated person for 2018's New Zealander of Year award. "At the conclusion of the nominations period, the awards office will assess Mr Joyce's eligibility based on his citizenship and other criteria," he said. "The independent judging panel will then consider each nomination on how a particular individual has contributed to making New Zealand a better place to live." Mr Joyce has since renounced his New Zealand citizenship. About 371 nominations have been received so far, with a deadline of September 18. A shortlist will be chosen by a panel and announced in December.

• LCA applauds proposed Modern Slavery Act The Law Council of Australia has welcomed new recommendations for the development of a Modern Slavery Act, calling it a “vital step forward”. The legal body is backing recommendations included in an interim report of the Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, which urges the need for a Modern Slavery Act. The committee has recommended that a Modern Slavery Act should include the creation of an Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, a move that LCA applauds.

• Fact check: Is the same-sex marriage survey a completely novel idea that is not actually a plebiscite? The Coalition's promise to give Australians a say on whether same-sex marriage should be legal has changed from a planned compulsory plebiscite to a voluntary postal survey, sparking anger from same-sex marriage supporters. Michael Kirby, a former judge of the High Court, who is gay and a same-sex marriage supporter, described the postal survey as "unacceptable" and "irregular". A High Court challenge to the survey will be heard on September 5 and 6. Should the ballot be ruled illegitimate, it would return the nation to "deadlock", according to Professor Williams.

• Australian Bar Review Vol 44 No 2 - In this issue - Family saved by Dower - Bill Windeyer / DIY - It's costly consequence for counsel - Dr R J Desiatnik / Should Supreme Courts bind District Courts - Oliver Jones / Common practice, breach of duty and jury trials: the history of Mercer v Commissioner for Road Transport and Tramways (1936) - Mark Lunney / A new approach to service outside the jurisdiction and outside Australia under the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules - Michael Douglas and Vivienne Bath / Three people in the marriage? Testing the limits of part VIIIAA of the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) - James McComish / The exercise of judicial power by State parliaments - Gerard Carney / Causation and fiduciary misconduct in Hong Kong and beyond - Daniel Farinha

• Modern Law Review Vol 80 no 4 - In this issue - What sort of things are public morals; a liberal cosmopolitan approach to Article XX GATT / Debt restructuring and notions of fairness / Why judicial control of price terms in consumer contracts might not always be the right answer - Insights from behavioural law and economics / The Housing and Planning Act 2016: Rewarding the aspiration of homeownership?

• ATO tax syndicate lawyer surrenders in first round of professional misconduct battle A Sydney lawyer charged in relation to an alleged $165M tax fraud syndicate will no longer contest the Law Society of NSW's right to apply for him to be struck off over a separate matter.

• Dual citizenship crisis: October High Court dates set, Tony Windsor to challenge Barnaby Joyce The fate of politicians referred to the High Court over the citizenship saga will not be known until at least mid-October. Mr Joyce's political nemesis, Tony Windsor, has been given permission to join the citizenship challenge in the High Court.

• Cost for new 'Sydney icon' Cloud Arch blows out to $11.3mThe revised design for the City of Sydney's Cloud Arch public artwork project has been released - and the cost has increased from $3.5 million to $11.3 million. Designed by Japanese artist and architect Junya Ishigami, the sculpture will span 53 metres from the Queen Victoria Building across George Street to the intersection with Park Street at Town Hall.

Austlii - the Australasian Legal Information Institute that provides free internet access to Australasian legal materials - has had a makeover! The website re-launch went live recently, with the new design aimed towards finding resources more efficiently. Don't despair if you're an avid Austlii fan, the ‘classic’ interface is being kept going for now.Go check out the new look today!

• Family Law Reports 56 FLR Pt 2-3 - Cases reported in this part:
• Bant v Clayton
• Calder v Calder
• Farnell v Chanbua
• Hart v Sellwood
• Welch v Abney

• Administrative Law Decisions 155 ALD Pt 1 - Cases reported in this part:
• AEK15 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection
• ASP15 v Commonwealth
• Blain v Repatriation Commission
• Campbell v Superannuation Complaints Tribunal
• Chen v Migration Agents Registration Authority (No 2)
• Minister for Immigration and Border protection v Kumar
• MZAFZ v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection
• Plaintiff S244/2012 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection
• Re Seymour and Commissioner of Taxation (2013/0287-0296; 2014/1853-1859)
• Re Seymour and Commissioner of Taxation (2013/4168-4177)
• Re Taggart and Civil Aviation Safety Authority
• Re Thomson and Comcare
• Steelforce Trading Pty Ltd (ACN 110 146 515) v Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister
• for Industry, Innovation and Science

• CRIMINAL PROCEDURE REGULATION 2017 (NSW) The object of this Regulation is to remake, with amendments, the provisions of the Criminal Procedure Regulation 2010, which is repealed on 1 September 2017 by section 10 (2) of the Subordinate Legislation Act 1989.

• Malcolm Turnbull’s government has finally defied fiction In a week belonging more appropriately to Shaun Micallef comedy than parliamentary reality, it’s arguable Pauline Hanson’s burqa stunt wasn’t the most extraordinary thing that happened in Canberra. Let’s call out her action, but not play into her cynical pursuit of mega publicity. Entirely beyond imagination was the week being bookended by the Nationals leader, Barnaby Joyce, and his deputy, senator Fiona Nash, standing up in their respective houses to announce they were dual citizens (he a Kiwi, she a Brit).

• A-G issues advice on judiciary’s public presence Commonwealth Attorney-General George Brandis QC has offered his advice on the public presence of judges, in response to the parliamentary inquiry into family violence and the family law system.

• High court upholds Australia's right to send asylum seekers to Papua New GuineaThe high court has upheld Australia’s right to send asylum seekers to offshore detention in Papua New Guinea, despite the PNG supreme court ruling the Australian-run processing centre on the island was “unconstitutional and illegal”. The full bench of the high court, sitting in Brisbane, ruled Australia’s offshore arrangement with PNG was valid.

• Sydney law graduate argues English skills too poor to sit on a jury A Sydney law graduate who argued his command of the English language was too limited to be a juror was knocked back by the Supreme Court and ordered to continue deliberations in a murder trial.

• ALHR backs High Court challenge to marriage equality postal voteAustralian Lawyers for Human Rights (ALHR) has voiced its support for a constitutional challenge to the non-compulsory, non-binding postal vote on same-sex marriage, calling the idea “fundamentally flawed”.

• Law Society Journal August 2017 In this issue: Julian McMahon on his life's work and his battle to end the death penalty / Barack Obama's former Lawyer on the power of being honest / Bolivian prisons and white power / The dark side of Henry Lawson and why it's still relevant today / Shifting the goalposts again: the skilled migration program

• Law Institute Journal August 2017 In this issue: Celebrating top tier women: 21st century leaders in law / Family law: a question of ethics / Property law: Give and take / Sentencing: the quest for consistency / Superannuation and death benefits: Ready, willing and able

• Proctor August 2017 In this issue: Retirement villages - who'd ever want to leave? / Privilege to protect counselling records / guidance statement no& / ALRC tackles elder financial abuse

• NSW Law Reports Volume 93(2) Reported in this part:
• Dowling v Ultraceuticals Pty Ltd
• Arab Bank Australia Ltd v Sayde Developments Pty Ltd
• Sydney recycling Park Pty Ltd v Cardinal Group Pty Ltd (In liq)
• State of NSW v Robinson
• Lambert Leasing Inc v QBE Insurance Ltd
• Lehn v R
• State of NSW v Wenham

• Annotated Australian work health and safety legislation / Cormack E Dunn
• Annotated guide to the insolvency legislation 2017 / Len Sealy and David Milman
• The Paris Agreement on climate change : analysis and commentary / Daniel Klein, Maria Pia Carazo, Meinhard Doelle, Jane Bulmer and Andrew Higham (eds)
• Butt's Land law (7th Ed) / Brendan Edgeworth

The Weekly Law Reports now has a volume 4. Volume 4 was introduced in 2016 as an online-only expansion of The Weekly Law Reports and extends coverage to include cases that illustrate the application of existing principles to particular factual situations or helpfully bring together and summarise established principles as well as providing deeper coverage of family law, shipping, sentencing and awards of general damages. The entire library of Weekly Law Reports can be accessed in the library and individual cases can be emailed to library members on request.