The Library Bulletin

• Australian commercial law / Clive Turner and John Trone
• Chalmers and Guest on bills of exchange, cheques and promissory notes / S J Gleeson
• Legal ethics / Jonathan Herring

• Australian Law Journal 2017 Vol 91(3) In this issue: Not worth the paper they're written on? Executing documents (including deeds) under electronic documentation platforms: Part B / Burqas and Niqabs in the Courtroom: Finding practical solutions

• Psychiatry, Psychology and Law 2017 Vol 24 (2) In this issue: Determination of competency to stand trial (fitness to plead): an exploratory study in Hong Kong / Legal representatives opinions regarding psychologists engaging in expert witness services in Australian courts and tribunals /...

• Gazette No 53 of 5 May 2017 (pages 1598-1661)
• Gazette No 52 of 28 April 2017 (pages 1470-1597)
• Gazette No 51 of 21 April 2017 (pages 1383-1469)

New or updated in force legislation

• Government Information (Public Access) Regulation 2009
• Independent Commission Against Corruption Regulation 2010
• Regulatory and Other Legislation (Amendments and Repeals) Act 2016 No 60
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• Family Law Reports Vol 55 Part 4 - Cases reported: Beckham v Desprez / Campbell v Superannuation Complaints Tribunal / Garvey v Jess / Oswald v Karrington

• District Court Reports Vol 23 Part 2 - Cases reported: Bell Lawyers v Pentelow / Boikov v Dailymail.com Australia Pty Ltd / Elzahed v Commonwealth / Jacobs v Levitt / Moss v SAS Trustee Corporation (No 2) / R v Wells

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Commonwealth Law Reports Cases reported:

• Alcan Grove Prt Ltd v Zabic
• IMM v The Queen
• Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission v May...

• 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...

• Gazette No 52 of 28 April 2017 (pages 1470-1597)
• Gazette No 51 of 21 April 2017 (pages 1383-1469)

NSW Notifications

New As Made Legislation

• Legal Profession Uniform Law - Legal Profession Uniform Admission Amendment (Academic Areas of Knowledge) Rule 2017 (2017-157)...

• The principle of legality in Australia and New Zealand / Dan Meagher and Matthew Groves (eds)
• Street on torts / Christian Witting (14th ed)
• Implied terms in English contract law / Richard Austen-Baker
• Legal ethics / Jonathan Herring
• Veterans’ entitlements and military compensation law / Robin Creyke and Peter Sutherland

• 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 /...

• Australian commercial law / Clive Turner and John Trone
• Terrell on the law of patents / Colin Birss (ed) et al
• Tristram and Coote's probate practice / Roland D'Costa, P Teverson and Terry Synak
• Carver on bills of lading / Sir Guenther Treitel and F M B Reynolds
• Enrichment at the claimants expense : attribution rules in unjust enrichment / Eli Ball

• New visa test to require immigrants to shotgun a VB while wearing a Bintang singlet Tough new visa laws announced this week will require would-be Australians to put away a 375mL tin of Victoria Bitter in under 30 seconds, while wearing an old singlet they picked up in Bali. Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke said he didn’t think the measures went far enough.

• Turnbull grilled over 'Australian Values' citizenship test changes Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says concern for his own political future was...

New As Made Legislation

• Mental Health Act 2007 - Mental Health Amendment (Corresponding Law) Regulation 2017 (2017-151)
• Public Health Act 2010 - Public Health Amendment (Fees) Regulation 2017 (2017-152)
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• Gazette No 51 of 21 April 2017 (pages 1383-1469)
• Gazette No 50 of 13 April 2017 (pages 1381-1382)

• 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
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• 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...

• 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

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• 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...

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...

New As Made Legislation

• Uniform Civil Procedure (Amendment No 84) Rule 2017 (2017-130)

New or updated in force legislation...

• Gazette No 49 of 13 April 2017 (pages 1298-1380)
• Gazette No 48 of 11 April 2017 (pages 1293-1297)
• Gazette No 47 of 10 April 2017 (pages 1285-1292)

• 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...

• Law of insurance broking / Christopher Henley and Simon Kemp
• Spencer Bower : reliance-based estoppel / Piers Feltham, Daniel Hochberg and Tom Leech
• Varieties of restitution / Ian Jackman
• Children, parents and the courts : legal intervention in family life / John Seymour
• Street on torts / Christian Witting...

New As Made Legislation

• Constitution Act 1902 - Administrative Arrangements (Administrative Changes—Public Service Agencies) Amendment Order 2017 (2017-128)
• Uniform Civil Procedure (Amendment No 84) Rule 2017 (2017-130)
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