The Library Bulletin

• New As Made Legislation
• Aboriginal Land Rights Amendment (Local Aboriginal Land Councils) Act 2017 No 1 - Commencement Proclamation
• Independent Commission Against Corruption Act 1988 - Independent Commission Against Corruption Amendment (Commissioners) Regulation 2017

• Public Finance and Audit Act 1983 - Public Finance and Audit Amendment (Statutory Bodies) Proclamation 2017

• New or updated in force legislation

• Crimes Act 1900 No 40
• Defamation Act 2005 No 77
• Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000
• Local Government Act 1993 No 30
• Water Act 1912 No 44

• New or updated Bills in Parliament
• Local Government Amendment (Disqualification from Civic Office) Bill 2017
• Local Government Amendment (Rates & Merged Council Areas) Bill 2017
• Transport Administration Amendment (Transport Entities) Bill 2017

• NSW Government Gazettes
• Gazette No 42 of 31 March 2017
• Gazette No 41 of 29 March 2017
• Gazette No 40 of 27 March 2017

• Commonwealth Law Reports 2015-16 Vol 257(2) Table of cases reported:
• Alcan Grove Pty Ltd v Zabic
• IMM v The Queen
• McCloy v New Suth Wales
• Plantiff M68/2015 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection

• Federal Court Reports 2016 Vol 244(1) Table of Cases reported:
• AMA15 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection
• AZAFB v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection
• D7 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection
• Justice, Minister for v Lobban
• Minister for Immigration and Border Protection v Le

• Watkins syndicate 0457 at Lloyds v Pantarnius Australia Pty Ltd

• Lloyd's Law Reports 2017 3(1)Table of Cases reported:

• Banco Santander Totta SA v Companhia Carris de Ferro de Lisboa SA and Others [CA]
• DTEK Trading SA v Morozov and Another [QBD (Comm Ct)]
• Michael Wilson & Partners v Sinclair and Others [CA]
• Silver Dry Bulk Co Ltd v Homer Hulbert Maritime Co Ltd [QBD (Comm Ct)]

• A dying man’s short will has a long history. Cecil George Harris was a wheat farmer who had a wife and two children. Following an accident in which he was pinned between two pieces of farm equipment for several hours, Harris died of his injuries. Before doing so, he used his knife to scratch into the fender of a tractor a 16-word will; In case I die in this mess I leave all to the wife. Cecil Geo. Harris . The court approved the will and Harris’ widow received the total estate. The tractor fender testament is a standby of wills and estates textbooks around the world. An Australian court has called it “perhaps the most dramatic example” of a holographic, or handwritten, will ever accepted.

• RSL branches across Australia to be investigated by ACNC The Australian Charities and Not For Profits Commission (ACNC) is now investigating every state and territory branch of the Returned and Services League of Australia (RSL). The New South Wales, Queensland, and South Australia branches are all under specific scrutiny, while other branches are understood to be the target of a more general review. Some within the organisation view it as fall-out from the multiple allegations of financial misconduct at the NSW branch, which first surfaced six months ago.

• Paul Keating says neo-liberalism is at 'a dead end' after Sally McManus speech Former prime minister Paul Keating – architect of some of the most profound economic reforms in the country's history during the 1980s – has launched a surprise critique of the liberal economic philosophy he once championed, declaring it has "run into a dead end".

• The Australian ambassador to the United States, Joe Hockey, tells us not to bag Trump The former Liberal federal treasurer praised the Trump administration as a “practical” and “credible” force, saying the US president’s cabinet picks fulfilled his election promise to “drain the swamp”.

• Royal Jordanian is giving Trump some serious sass Earlier this month, the United States announced it would ban passengers from six countries in the Middle East and Africa from taking electronics on flights. Jordan's national airline company Royal Jordanian is one of the countries on America’s blacklist, and it doesn’t want a bar of it. The airline has been poking fun at Donald Trump since he was a Presidential candidate, advising customers: “Just in case he wins ... Travel to the US while you’re still allowed to” in November last year. In response to the latest electronics ban, they’ve announced a poetry competition, offering two free tickets to the United States to the person who pens the best poem to the theme “#electronics ban”.

• Brief: The Law Society of WA Journal (March 2017) In this issue:
• State Government and Opposition respond to the Law Society's Policy Positions
• An interview with the Hon Justice Buss
• The finality of planning approvals: the unexplored impact of the Interpretation Act 1984

• The Coronial Jurisdiction: Lessons for Living

• ARITA Journal (March 2017) In this issue:

• The challenges of Cloud Accounting: Why today's insolvency practitioners need to be IT savvy SAKR Appeal Decision: Liquidator Remuneration
• Voluntary administration - is your appointment valid?

• Voidable transactions and the race against time

• Taxation In Australia (March 2017) In this issue:

• Early stage innovation companies - a deeper dive
• Negative gearing: separating fact from fiction

• Primary production exemption for land tax

• The Australian Corporate Lawyer (Autumn 2017) In this issue:

• The Law and Technology: our in-house panel share their insights
• The future of contracts

• Will law firms become software companies?

• Hong Kong Lawyer (March 2017) In this issue:

• Face to Face with Gregory So GBS JP Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development
• Court of Appeal concludes that certain features in the Judgment Summons Procedure are not consistent with the Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance
• Outbound Chinese Investment into the EU: What you need to know about Regulatory Roadblocks

As the UK government prepares to trigger Article 50, it seems like an appropriate time to share an annotated list of online resources regarding the legal implications of the UK referendum and Brexit, which London's Middle Temple Library has compiled: http://www.middletemple.org.uk/library-archive/library/electronic-resources/links-lawyers/brexit

Both lists are frequently updated, so do please keep an eye out for future developments.

• I like a clamour : John Walpole Willis, colonial judge, reconsidered / Max Bonnell
• Constitutional recognition of first peoples in Australia : theories and comparative perspectives / Simon Young, Jennifer Nielsen and Jeremy Patrick (eds)
• Street on torts (14th ed)/ Christian Witting
• Australia's war crimes trials 1945-51 / Georgina Fitzpatrick, Timothy McCormack and Narrelle Morris
• Disclosure (being the fifth edition of Discovery) / Paul Matthews and Hodge M Malek
• Criminal due process and chapter III of the Australian constitution / Anthony Gray
• Ministerial advisers in Australia : the modern legal context / Yee-Fui Ng
• Music and the law / Peter MacFarlane and Paraskevi Kontoleon

The Legal Profession Uniform Law Library (Australia) includes databases of Legal Profession Uniform Law accessible via AustLII. Catalog and Websearch enables browsing of Legal Profession Uniform Law related materials on other websites as does Law on Google.

Travel back in time to early colonial days, with the recent digitisation of over 60,000 documents dating from the First Legislative Council (1824 - 1855). You can peruse tabled papers, Bills, minutes of proceedings, reports of debates and correspondence, and learn firsthand about the colony and its fledgling Parliament. For example, there is the Census Bill of 1828: an Act for ascertaining the number, names and condition of the inhabitants of NSW; the Female Felons Factory Act 1829: an Act compelling married men to send for their wives, or to maintain them after the expiration of their sentence to the female factory in order to save the expense to the public; and the University of Sydney Bill 1850. International affairs were recorded too, including the Declaration of the Crimean War. The records - many of which are handwritten - have been digitised as part of a project to make the Parliament as accessible as possible to the community. The Parliament of New South Wales is pleased to provide unprecedented public access to this significant historic material. The records can be accessed via the Parliament's website. We encourage you to go exploring and to send the link to interested family, friends and colleagues.

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The Law and Justice Committee of the Upper House have released a first review report and subsequently have made 26 recommendations to improve the workers compensation scheme. Access a full copy of the report via our catalogue.

• NSW Notifications Week Beginning 6 March 2017

New As Made legislation:

• Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 - Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Amendment (Trust Account Holders) Regulation 2017 (2017-61)
• Constitution Act 1902 - Administrative Arrangements (Administrative Changes—Law Enforcement Conduct Commission) Order 2017 (2017-60) Local Government Act 1993 - Local Government (General) Amendment (Minimum Rates) Regulation 2017 (2017-64)
• Workers Compensation Act 1987 - Workers Compensation Amendment (Latest Index Number) Regulation 2017 (2017-67)
• Workers Compensation Act 1987 - Workers Compensation (Indexation of Amounts) Amendment Order 2017 (2017-68)

New or updated in force legislation:

• Administrative Changes Orders
• Government Sector Employment Act 2013 No 40
• Land and Environment Court Act 1979 No 204
• Local Government Act 1993 No 30
• Local Government (General) Regulation 2005
• Taxation Administration Act 1996 No 97

New or updated Bills in Parliament:

• Crimes Amendment (Zoe's Law) Bill 2017
• Fines Amendment Bill 2017
• Motor Accident Injuries Bill 2017

• New Government Gazettes
• Gazette No 31 of 10 March 2017 (pages 613-672)
• Gazette No 30 of 3 March 2017 (pages 545-612)

Do you know you can access LEGENDcom through the library? LEGENDcom is an electronic database of Migration and Citizenship legislation and policy documents.

LEGENDcom relevantly contains the following:

• Procedures Advice Manual 3
• Legislative and non-legislative instruments
• Gazette notices
• Migration Series Instructions
• Instruments
• Fillable forms

To access LEGEND all you need to do is visit the library [please see staff for log in details]

• NSW Liberals in dispute over Glenn Brookes and Ronney Oeuik election funding NSW Liberals are embroiled in another dispute with the state electoral commission over political donations with the party facing the prospect of having to pay back close to $300,000. [source: SMH]

• Rare legal defence clears NSW policeman who punched driver A police officer who kicked, punched and stomped on a man after he was involved in a high-speed crash during a pursuit in Newcastle has been found not guilty of assault after the prosecution failed to prove he knew what he was doing. [Source: SMH]

• Federal Court Reports 2016 Vol 243 Part 3 pp 301-450. Table of Cases reported: ResMed v Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union / Scandinavian Tobacco Group Ersel BV v Trojan Trading Company / Selth v Australian Barrister Chambers Pty Ltd / Sun v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection / Taxation, deputy commissioner of; Kaftaris v / Taxation, deputy commissioner of; Financial Synergy Holdings Pty Ltd v / Taxation, deputy commissioner of; Millar / Trojan Trading Company Pty Ltd; Scandinavian Tobacco Group Ersel BV v / Woodall; Repatriation Commission v

• NSW Law Reports 2016 Vol 92 (2) pp 161-317. Table of Cases reported: Doueihi v Construction Technologies Australia Pty Ltd (CA) / Perish v R; Perish v R; Lawton v R (CCA)

• Queensland Reports 2016 Vol 2 Part 6 pp 507-605. Table of Cases reported: Dreamtouch PTY LTD v Ganbros PTY lTD (Jackson J) / Amnico Holdings LTD v Griese (Jackson J) / Bickle v Attorney-General (CA) / O'Connor v Hough (Burns J) / Pittaway v Noosa Cat Australia PTY LTD (CA) / R v Oliver (CA) R v Gee (Peter Lyons J)

• Judicial Officers Bulletin February 2017 - In this issue: Recent developments in Criminal Law The Honourable Justice Robert A Hulme / A collection of significant appellate criminal decisions from the High Court and NSW Court of Criminal Appeal

• Law Society Journal March 2017 - In this issue: Cover story Record numbers of refugees are arriving in NSW from Syria. Meet the team of solicitors on the frontline of their transition / Profile Claire Chaffey speaks to new NSW Attorney-General Mark Speakman about his plans to brighten the future of our justice system / Feature The Law and Justice Foundation turns 30 this year

• The Conveyancer and property lawyer Issue 1 2017 - in this issue: Blockchain, the Borg Collective and Digitalisation of Land Registries / Overreaching - Getting the right balance / The correction of Mirror Wills: Interpretation versus Rectification

• Archbold Review bulletin February 2017 - In this issue: insight into the latest discussions in criminal law and practice the UK.

• New Zealand Law Review -In this issue: Table of Cases / Table of Statutes / The Family Group Conference: A Tongan Perspective / I Ain't No Fool: Deciding to Litigate in Person in the Civil Courts / The Role of Legal History in Developing New Zealand Common Law Following Paki (No 2) / Land Law

• Australian trade mark law / Robert Burrell and Michael Handler
• Annotated criminal legislation New South Wales
• Tort liability for mental harm / Peter Handford
• Security of payment in the Australian building and construction industry / Marcus Jacobs
• Drafting trusts and will trusts : a modern approach / James Kessler and Charlotte Ford