The Library Bulletin

• Indigenous Law Resources database receives major update - The Indigenous Law Resources database received a major update in late 2016. The database, hosted on AustLII’s website, now has more than 1200 fully searchable documents, dating from 1768 to 2016. The collection includes parliamentary papers, government reports and policy documents affecting Indigenous peoples, and more.

• Lawyers are being replaced by machines that read - Lawyers are the professionals everyone loves to loathe. Jokes about attorneys abound, and Shakespeare’s line from Henry VI remains a cultural favorite: ”The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” Soon, that dream may come true, and machines will be the ones to do it.

• Robots in law : how artificial intelligence is transforming legal services / Joanna Goodman
• Keating : construction dispute resolution handbook / Robert Gaitskell (ed)
• Ethics, professional responsibility and legal practice / Peter MacFarlane and Ysaiah Ross
• Patents for chemicals, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology : fundamentals of global law, practice and strategy / Philip W Grubb, Peter R Thomsen, Gordon Wright and Tom Hoxie
• Criminal defences in Australia / Paul A Fairall and Malcolm Barrett
• Lowe Everall Nicholls : international movement of children : law, practice and procedure / Nigel Lowe and Michael Nicholls

• Criminal Law Review - In this issue: Old Law and Young Offenders: Sentencing and the limits of Article 7 - Lyndon Harris and Sebastian Walker / Rationing Defence intermediaries under the April 2016 Criminal Practice Direction - Laura Hoyano and Angela Rafferty QC / Wrongful Convictions of Refugee and Asylum Seekers: Responses by the Criminal Case Review Commission - Mai Sato, Carolyn Hoyle and Naiomi-Ellen Speechley

• Taxation in Australia - In this issue: Transitional CGT choices to be made by SMSFs by Peter Slegers CTA and Nicole Santinon ATI / New tax incentives for investors in start-up companies by Mark Gioskos FTI and Travis McCarthy ATI / The proposed debt and equity amendments: improvements or more uncertainty? by Aldrin De Zilva CTA, Elizabeth Goodman and Alistair Haskett

• Civil Procedure News (The White Book Service)- In this issue: The Civil Proceedings Fees (Amendment) Order 2016 / Civil Procedure Practice Direction Update / Queens Bench Guide 2017 / Chancery Division - Informal Costs Management Note / CE-File update / Recent Cases

• NSW Notifications - Week Beginning 20 February 2017

• New or updated in force legislation

• Biosecurity Act 2015 No 24
• Campbelltown Local Environmental Plan 2015
• Government Sector Employment Act 2013 No 40

• Public Holidays Order 2011

• New As Made legislation

• Ballina Local Environmental Plan 2012 (Amendment No 29) (2017-44) LW 24 February 2017
• Campbelltown Local Environmental Plan 2015 (Amendment No 1) (2017-39) LW 20 February 2017
• Dungog Local Environmental Plan 2014 (Amendment No 3) (2017-45) LW 24 February 2017
• Government Sector Employment Act 2013 - Government Sector Employment Amendment (Transitional Internal Audit Senior Executives) Regulation 2017 (2017-40) LW 22 February 2017
• Land Acquisition (Just Terms Compensation) Amendment Act 2016 No 59 - Commencement Proclamation (2017-49) LW 24 February 2017
• Lismore Local Environmental Plan 2012 (Amendment No 18) (2017-46) LW 24 February 2017
• Photo Card Act 2005 - Photo Card Amendment (Fees) Regulation 2017 (2017-42) LW 24 February 2017
• Public Holidays Act 2010 - Public Holidays Amendment Order 2017 (2017-41) LW 22 February 2017
• Regulatory and Other Legislation (Amendments and Repeals) Act 2016 No 60 - Commencement Proclamation (2017-43) LW 24 February 2017
• Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2012 (Amendment No 34) (2017-47) LW 24 February 2017

• Warringah Local Environmental Plan 2011 (Amendment No 17) (2017-48) LW 24 February 2017

• New or updated Bills in Parliament

• Aboriginal Land Rights Amendment (Local Aboriginal Land Councils) Bill 2017
• Biosecurity Amendment Bill 2017
• Discount Rate Reduction (Miscellaneous Acts Amendment) Bill 2017
• Motor Racing Legislation Amendment (Newcastle 500) Bill 2017
• Retail Leases Amendment (Review) Bill 2017
• State Revenue Legislation Amendment Bill 2017
• Transport Administration Amendment (Independent Transport Safety Regulator) Bill 2017

• Gazette No 29 of 24 February 2017 (pages 542-544)
• Gazette No 28 of 24 February 2017 (pages 494-541)
• Gazette No 27 of 21 February 2017 (pages 488-493)
• Gazette No 26 of 20 February 2017 (pages 485-487)

• Fleet Street Reports (2017) Part 2
• Building Law Reports (2017) Part 1
• The Law Reports: ICLR (2017) Part 1
• The Weekly Law Reports: ICLR (2017) Part 4

• Gazette No 24 of 17 February 2017 (pages 473-478)
• Gazette No 23 of 17 February 2017 (pages 416-472)
• Gazette No 22 of 13 February 2017 (pages 414-415)
• Gazette No 21 of 13 February 2017 (pages 412-413)
• Gazette No 20 of 13 February 2017 (pages 406-411)

• Family Law Reports 55(1): Bondelmonte v Bondelmonte Madin v Palis Parke v Parke Vadisanis v Vadisanis

• ICLR The Weekly Law Reports 2017(3): Bankruptcy - Revenue and Customs Comrs v Ariel Company - In re Pablo Star Ltd Crime - R v Qosja Immigration - R (AR(Pakistan)) v Secretary of State for Home Department / IT(Jamaica) v Secretary of State for Home Department / R(JM(Zimbabwe)) v Secretary of State for Home Department

• Push on to adapt copyright law to provide greater ‘fair use’ An alliance of 47 organisations, including 15 universities, has written to the Communications Minister to implore that he take action on copyright law. The signatories, ranging from Google to schools and consumer groups, say new “fair use” legislation is “critical to ensure that our economy is best placed for a strong digital future”.

• Lawyer predicts his AI will replace tax agents An Adelaide-based tax lawyer has created an artificial intelligence (AI) that’s become such an expert in Australian tax law he predicts tax agents will be gone within five years.

New As Made legislation

• Burwood Local Environmental Plan 2012 (Amendment No 11) (2017-31) LW 17 February 2017
• Gosford Local Environmental Plan 2014 (Amendment No 27) (2017-32) LW 17 February 2017
• Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) - Legal Profession Uniform Admission Amendment (Police Reports) Rule 2016 (2017-38) LW 17 February 2017
• Leichhardt Local Environmental Plan 2013 (Amendment No 9) (2017-33) LW 17 February 2017
• Liquor Act 2007 - Liquor Amendment Regulation 2017 (2017-29) LW 17 February 2017
• North Sydney Local Environmental Plan 2013 (Amendment No 18) (2017-34) LW 17 February 2017
• Port Stephens Local Environmental Plan 2013 (Amendment No 8) (2017-35) LW 17 February 2017
• State Emergency and Rescue Management Act 1989 - Order regarding volunteers taking part in emergency operations (2017-28) LW 13 February 2017
• Strathfield Local Environmental Plan 2012 (Amendment No 8) (2017-36) LW 17 February 2017
• Transport Administration Act 1988 - Transport Administration (General) Amendment (Newcastle Light Rail) Regulation 2017 (2017-30) LW 17 February 2017
• Willoughby Local Environmental Plan 2012 (Amendment No 8) (2017-37) LW 17 February 2017

New or updated Bills in Parliament

• Aboriginal Land Rights Amendment (Local Aboriginal Land Councils) Bill 2016
• City of Sydney Amendment (Restoring Equal Voting Rights) Bill 2017
• Fines Amendment Bill 2017
• Greyhound Racing Amendment (Greyhound Racing Integrity Commission) Bill 2016
• Motor Racing Legislation Amendment (Newcastle 500) Bill 2017
• Retail Leases Amendment (Review) Bill 2016
• Sporting Venues Authorities Amendment Bill 2017
• Transport Administration Amendment (Independent Transport Safety Regulator) Bill 2017

• Proctor: Queensland Law Society In this Issue: What, who and why - QLS 2017 president Christine Smyth Sanity of the Magistrates Court / Reform proposals target elder abuse / A staged approach to elder financial abuse

• Company Law Newsletter In this issue: BEIS consults on corporate governance reform: no employee-representative directors / News Desk / Recent cases round up

• Restitution Law Review In this issue: Subrogation, Priority Disputes and Rectification: Mapping a route through the thicket by Dr Stephen Watterson / Against Necessity as a Ground for Restitution by William Day / A Closer Look at Account and Money Had and Recieved by Dr Hamish Dempster / Void or Voidable: An erroneous approach to the Law of Mistake? by Sam Brodsky / Recovery for Mistaken Dispositions: Possible effects of Pitt v Holt by Imogen Dodds / The Diminishing Power of the Defendant: Illegality after Patel v Mirza by NIcholas Strauss QC / UNjust Enrichment and Rough Justice (Menelaou v Bank of Cyprus) by Dr David Winterton / Restitution for Mistake in Singapore: Treading Water? (Singapore Swimming Club v Koh) by Daniel Y M Tan

• Lowe Everall Nicholls : international movement of children : law, practice and procedure / Nigel Lowe and Michael Nicholls
• Keating : construction dispute resolution handbook / Robert Gaitskell (ed)
• Granville Sharp's cases on slavery / Andrew Lyall
• Drafting trusts and will trusts : a modern approach / James Kessler and Charlotte Ford
• Credit derivatives : understanding and working with the 2014 ISDA credit derivatives definitions / Edmund Parker

• Free law resources on the Trump Administration Oxford University Press have compiled and made freely available a set of readings on 10 questions of international and constitutional law and The early days of The Trump Administration.

• 2016 in review (Lawyers Weekly) Cirque du Soleil could take a few cues from the legal profession for its next big-top production. With all the near misses, twists and tumbles, the last 12 months have been at once awe-inspiring and bizarre. Take a look at 2016 a year in review as published by Lawyers Weekly

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• Judicial review of administrative action and government liability / Mark Aronson, Matthew Groves and Greg Weeks, 6th ed, 2017
• Legal professional privilege in Australia / Ronald J Desiatnik, 3rd ed, 2017
• Ethics, professional responsibility and legal practice / Peter MacFarlane and Ysaiah Ross
• Contract in commercial law / Simone Degeling, James Edelman and James Goudkamp
• Australian citizenship law / Kim Rubenstein
• Annotated civil liability legislation Queensland / Richard Douglas, Gerard Mullins and Simon Grant

• New South Wales Law Reports 91(4)
• ICLR Weekly Law Reports Jan 13 2017
• Building Law Reports Dec 2016

New As Made legislation

• Botany Bay Local Environmental Plan 2013 (Amendment No 6) (2017-20) LW 10 February 2017
• Broken Hill Local Environmental Plan 2013 (Amendment No 3) (2017-21) LW 10 February 2017
• Clarence Valley Local Environmental Plan 2011 (Amendment No 29) (2017-22) LW 10 February 2017
• Fairfield Local Environmental Plan 2013 (Amendment No 20) (2017-23) LW 10 February 2017
• Hurstville Local Environmental Plan 2012 (Amendment No 10) (2017-24) LW 10 February 2017
• Lismore Local Environmental Plan 2012 (Amendment No 16) (2017-25) LW 10 February 2017
• The Hills Local Environmental Plan 2012 (Amendment No 38) (2017-26) LW 10 February 2017
• Tweed Local Environmental Plan 2014 (Amendment No 3) (2017-27) LW 10 February 2017

• Gazette No 18 of 10 February 2017 (pages 394-399)
• Gazette No 17 of 10 February 2017 (pages 318-393)

• Indigenous Law Bulletin (DEC 2016)
• The Economist (FEB 4-10)
• Criminal Law News Vol 24 No 1 2017

It's 2017. Happy new year! Alternative facts are the new black, and you received an email from us earlier this week about an overdue notice; we apologise for the confusion. Nobody had loaned the Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Act 2006.

It was an error caused by our overdues management system. We have not decided to embrace Trump's world view!

Your responses were fantastic and although understandably most proclaim to have no interest in Nuclear testing, one member asked to renew the loan for another week and at least one member willingly threw his chamber colleague under the bus. We embrace the humor of our Barristers and appreciate your good natured responses. Here are some of best (anonymously, of course)...

• "Not me. It must be another tall, dark and handsome Barrister."
• "I fear someone is impersonating me, which is the greatest compliment I have had for years!!"
• "Thank you for the compliment you do me in assuming I can still read."
• "Name Removed SC shares a secretary with me; they are known to interest themselves in this kind of doubtful literature………….perhaps they have it, and would be prepared to confess to that sad state of fact?"
• "Phew! I'm off the hook. As a well brought up law student I fear getting on the wrong side of librarians!! Lovely, lovely people ... until you nick their book."

You all passed the test.

• Lawyers professional responsibility / G E Dal Pont
• Law of charity / G E Dal Pont
• Sentencing in Australia / Mirko Bagaric and Richard Edney
• Criminal defences in Australia / Paul A Fairall and Malcolm Barrett
• Detectives' handbook 2017 : extracts from Criminal Law (NSW) and Uniform evidence law /NSW Police Force, A M Blackmore, G S Hosking and S Odgers
• Managing risk in reinsurance : from city fires to global warming / Niels Viggo Haueter and Geoffrey Jones (eds)
• Principles of Australian constitutional law / Patrick Keyzer, Christopher Goff and Asaf Fisher - Murder at Myall Creek : the trial that defined a nation / Mark Tedeschi
• Australian citizenship law / Kim Rubenstein
• Contract in commercial law / Simone Degeling, James Edelman and James Goudkamp

• Gazette No 16 of 3 February 2017 (pages 262-317)
• Gazette No 15 of 1 February 2017 (pages 260-261)
• Gazette No 14 of 31 January 2017 (pages 254-259)
• Gazette No 13 of 30 January 2017 (pages 251-253)
• Gazette No 12 of 30 January 2017 (pages 241-250)
• Gazette No 11 of 27 January 2017 (pages 227-240)
• Gazette No 10 of 27 January 2017 (pages 185-226)
• Gazette No 9 of 23 January 2017 (pages 183-184)
• Gazette No 8 of 20 January 2017 (pages 78-182)
• Gazette No 7 of 18 January 2017 (pages 72-77)
• Gazette No 6 of 17 January 2017 (pages 66-71)
• Gazette No 5 of 13 January 2017 (pages 56-65)
• Gazette No 4 of 13 January 2017 (pages 20-55)
• Gazette No 3 of 10 January 2017 (pages 14-19)
• Gazette No 2 of 9 January 2017 (pages 12-13)
• Gazette No 1 of 6 January 2017 (pages 1-11)

New or updated in force legislation

• Administrative Changes Orders
• Allocation of the Administration of Acts
• Liquor Regulation 2008
• Regulatory and Other Legislation (Amendments and Repeals) Act 2016 No 60
• Residential Tenancies Act 2010 No 42

New As Made legislation

• Constitution Act 1902 - Administrative Arrangements (Administration of Acts—General) Order 2017 (2017-17)
• Constitution Act 1902 - Administrative Arrangements (Administrative Changes—Ministers) Order 2017 (2017-18)

NSW Notifications

• Week Beginning 30 January 2017
• Week Beginning 23 January 2017

• The NSW Parliamentary Counsel's Office has added a new feature to the NSW legislation website. Users will now be able to generate a PDF for any component part or any version of any legislation in the In Force collection. The "Generate a PDF" icon will be situated on the dark blue menu bar at the top of the page. To create a PDF of an entire instrument, first click on "Whole title" and then on the "Generate a PDF" icon. The PDF created will display standard headers and footers. Further details are available under the Help link (http://www.legislation.nsw.gov.au/#/help).

• A new online platform developed by the NT Office of the Parliamentary Counsel (OPC) is now available as a one stop shop for searching legislation enacted in the Territory. The new platform went live on Monday December 5 and is available at https://legislation.nt.gov.au Users can register as subscribers with the service and set up accounts that will enable them to receive email notifications when legislation is updated.

• Project: Caselaw Access Project The Caselaw Access Project is making all U.S. case law freely accessible online.

• A library without librarians is a just a shed full of books The Federal Government announced in September it was eliminating 63 positions from national cultural organisations; But libraries without librarians are just storerooms.