The Library Bulletin

Australia and the US have named judges to their highest courts, but in very different ways by Michael Lavarch on The Guardian

Certain sports supplements to be regulated as 'medicines' under the therapeutic goods regulatory regime from November 2020 by Belinda Breakspear and Jake Grant of McCullough Robertson - item on regulatory changes

Data equity at the farm gate : the future of agricultural technologies by Peter Waters and Rebecca Mahoney of Gilbert + Tobin - considers agtech...

Pauperis v Pauperis [2020] NSWSC 1470 - succession, a woman who assumed control over a Sydney house and a vacant block near Nowra after their owner died became entitled to the properties under squatter's rights and left them to her sons

Federal Court reports, Vol 273(3), October 2020 - in this issue : Australian Red Cross Society v Queensland Nurses' Union of Employees / Fortescue Metals Group v Warrie

New South Wales law reports, Vol 101(4), October 2020 - in this issue : Apokis v Transport for NSW / Bond v Nissan Motor Co (Australia) Pty Ltd / Brewster v BMW Australia Ltd / Coates v Mazda Australia Pty Ltd / Council of Trinity Grammar School, The v Anderson / Duffy Kennedy Pty Ltd v...

Duty of care in negligence / James Plunkett

A first nations voice in the Australian constitution / Shireen Morris

The law-making process (8th ed) / Michael Zander...

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Australian law journal, Vol 94(10), October 2020 - in this issue : Current issues Justice François Kunc (ed) Privacy and the law François Kunc, Privacy and the law - introduction Megan Richardson, The curated page / "Personal Information" and group data under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) Mark J Taylor / Consumer privacy and consent : reform in the light of contract and consumer protection law Damian Clifford and Jeannie Paterson / Liability of platforms under Australian privacy law David Lindsay / Another push for an Australian privacy tort : context, evaluation and prospects Normann Witzleb / The confidentiality of journalists' sources in police investigations : privacy, privilege and the freedom of political...

NSW Bills assented to

Sporting Venues Authorities Amendment (Venues NSW) Act 2020 No 29 — Assented to 27 October 2020

Statute Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2020 No 30 — Assented to 27 October 2020...

Bills assented to

Road Transport Amendment (Digital Licensing) Act 2020 No 27 — assented to 19 Oct 2020

Transport Administration Amendment (Closures of Railway Lines in Northern Rivers) Act 2020 No 28 — assented to 19 Oct 2020...

Clerk and Lindsell on torts (23rd ed) / Michael A Jones and Anthony M Dugdale (eds)

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TL v R [2020] NSWCCA 265 - conviction and 35 year sentence for murder of a toddler upheld, evidence rulings on tendency evidence (prior scalding of toddler's feet, and apparent bruising) and toddler's statement that D once punched her, allowed under s 65(2)(c)

Todd v The Queen [2020] HCATrans 170 - refusal of special leave, sentencing, life sentences on 19-year-olds raise significant equality issues

The ages of administrative law by Paul Daly on Administrative Law Matters

Employees duties under Ch2D of the Corporations Act from University of Sydney Law School

Is a safety regulator's enforcement notice always valid? Not if the notice was issued 'under dictation' by Michael Selinger of Holding Redlich -...

Register for a webinar on Voice to parliament as part of The Indigenous Law Centre and Uluru Dialogue NAIDOC Seminar Series.

Panel : Megan Davis, Noel Pearson and Dani Larkin

When : October 22nd at 6pm...

Australian law journal, Vol 94(9), September 2020 - in this issue : Current issues Justice François Kunc (ed) Reflecting on recent events, Power, candour and decency in the law Ruth Higgins SC, A letter to the Commonwealth Attorney General, Thinking about judicial independence, The curated page / Conveyancing and property Robert Angyal SC and Brendan Edgeworth (eds) Some rights and liabilities of co-owners Timothy Pilkington, Fraud, the in personam exception and enforcing the undertakings of predecessors Christopher Pearce / Admiralty and maritime Dr Damien J Cremean (ed) Salvage and voluntariness Damien J Cremean / New Zealand Justice Matthew Palmer (ed) Civil justice reform in New...

In progress

Liquor Amendment (24-hour Economy) Bill 2020 - in Legislative Council, second reading, debate adjourned, 15 October 2020

Liquor Amendment (Right to Play Music) Bill 2020 - in Legislative Assembly, awaiting mover's second reading speech, 15 October 2020...

Register for a free webinar, Closing the Justice Gap : Implementing the Australian Law Reform Commission's Pathways to Justice Roadmap.

To be held on 28 October 2020 5.00pm - 6.30pm.

Join a panel discussion featuring Dr Hannah McGlade, Ms Cheryl Axleby, Dr Tracey McIntosh and Mr Tony McAvoy SC. Moderated by Law...

Automated decision making and administrative law – a nationwide conversation on law reform - webinar from the Australian Law Reform Commission

Geoffrey Robertson QC : the crisis in Nagorno-karabakh on The Wigs Podcast - the Wigs discuss international law in the context of a war over Nagorno-Karabakh with Geoffrey Robertson QC...

Cooper v The Owners – Strata Plan No 58068 [2020] NSWCA 250 - "harsh, unconscionable or oppressive", strata titles, applicants keep an animal (a miniature schnauzer) in their apartment in contravention of a by-law

Roadshow Films Pty Limited v Telstra Corporation Limited [2020] FCA 1468 - copyright, whether injunction should be granted requiring carriage service providers to disable access to online locations outside Australia

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Can a High Court challenge of Melbourne's lockdown succeed? Here's what the Constitution says by Luke Beck on The Conversation

The anatomy of administrative law / Joanna Bell

Current issues in Australian constitutional law : tributes to Professor Leslie Zines / John Griffiths and James Stellios (eds)

Fake law : the truth about justice in an age of lies / The Secret Barrister...

Adelaide law review, Vol 40(1), 2020 - in this issue : God-like powers : the character test and unfettered ministerial discretion Samuel C Duckett White / Justice at the edge : hearing the sound of silence Kim Economides, Aaron Timoshanko and Leslie S Ferraz / Can parliament deprive the High Court of jurisdiction with respect to matters arising under the Constitution or involving its interpretation? Robert Size / Demystifying CLS : a critical legal studies family tree James Gilchrist Stewart / A critical analysis of practitioners issuing 'not appropriate for family dispute resolution' certificates under the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) Joshua Taylor / Speech Acts : is racial vilification a form of racial discrimination? Bill Swannie /...

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2020 excluding or limiting liability in commercial contracts by Michael Bennett of 13 Wentworth Selborne Chambers - considers liability in commercial contracts

Ignorance is not bliss in a pro-arbitration jurisdiction – the enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in Australia by Geoff Farnsworth and Ushna Bashir of Holding Redlich - considers foreign arbitral awards...