The Library Bulletin

After a decade of decline, Australia is back on the rise in a global anti-corruption ranking by Adam Graycar on The Conversation

Canadian province tries decriminalising drugs to fight overdose crisis on ABC News

Court in Italy rules in favour of children who do not want to see grandparents by Angela Giuffrida in The Guardian

Family law overhaul promised, as government drafts new system more inclusive of children and kinship carers by Matthew Doran on ABC

A robot was scheduled to argue in court, then came the jail threats by Bobby Allyn on NPR

Attend : The Importance of Storytelling to International Law with speaker Dr Tamsin Phillipa Paige and chaired by Dr Emily Jones, presented by Essex University.

Time : Feb 13, 2023 10 AM in London (Feb 13, 9 PM in Sydney)

See details here.

Attend : Is it Better to Review or Monitor Terror Law? The UK and Australian Positions Compared, chaired by Bret Walker AO SC, with speakers Dr James Renwick CSC SC and Jonathan Hall KC, presented by Australian Academy of Law

Time : Wednesday, 22 March 2023, 5.30 pm - 7.00 pm AEDT (in person and online)

Place : Court 1, Federal Court of Australia, Law Courts Building, Queens Square, Sydney NSW 2000

See details here.

The Bar Library is offering personalised research skills sessions to members and their staff.

Whether you are looking to increase your knowledge generally in an area of legal research, would like to know how a particular resource works in more depth or are just a beginner looking to see what is available, the Bar Librarians can assist.

Sessions will work best for 1-3 people at a time. To arrange a time for your session, please contact library@nswbar.asn.au.

The Australian class action : a 30-year perspective / Michael Legg and James Metzger (eds)

Australian design law and practice / Tyrone Berger

Company directors : principles of law and corporate governance (2nd ed) / Ian M. Ramsay

Damages for breach of contract (2nd ed) / Katy Barnett

Digital assets and probate : a practitioner's guide / James Normington

Exclusion clauses and unfair contract terms (13th ed) / Neil Andrews

Goff & Jones : the law of unjust enrichment (10th ed) (formerly the law of restitution) / Charles Mitchell, Paul Mitchell and Stephen Watterson

Goode and Gullifer on legal problems of credit and security (7th ed) / Royston Miles Goode and Louise Gullifer

The law of the sea (4th ed) / Robin Churchill, Vaughan Lowe, Amy Sander and Iain Scobbie

Lindley and Banks on partnership (21st ed) / Roderick I'Anson Banks

Professional liability in Australia (4th ed) / Alister Abadee, Ben Zipser, Greg Sirtes and Richard O'Keefe

Sentence : the law of sentencing in NSW Courts for state and federal offences (6th ed) / Stephen J. Odgers

Stephens on contractual indemnities / Richard Stephens

Tudor on charities (11th ed) / William Henderson, Jonathan Fowles and Gregor Hogan

Vicarious liability in the common law world / Paula Giliker (ed)

The Bar Library will be closed on Thursday, 2nd February from 10-11am to allow the Librarians to attend a workplace meeting. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Pearson v MHA [2022] FCAFC 203 - If a person receives an 'aggregate sentence' of 12 months or more, are they serving a 'term of imprisonment of 12 months or more' within s 501(7)(c) of the Migration Act?

Margaret Anne Ryan and Anor v HSBC UK Bank PLC [2023] EWHC 90 (Ch) - possible perception of subconscious bias justifying judicial recusal

ChatGPT goes to law school by Jonathan H. Choi, Kristin E. Hickman, Amy Monahan and Daniel Schwarcz, University of Minnesota

Climate litigation in international organs and courts : the Torres Strait Islanders case presented by Monica Feria-Tinta at University of Oxford

The future of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, Keynote address by Prof Karen Scott, ANU College of Law

Law Report (ABC) for 24 January presented by Damien Carrick - Why was the AAT abolished? The dangers of witnessing wills remotely

Novel foods, novel field : patent validity issues in the new foods landscape by Odette Gourley, Kate Donald and Grace Griffiths of Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Nyunt v First Property Pte Ltd : setting aside registration of foreign judgments by Daniel MacPherson and Jia Lee of Gilbert + Tobin

Violent environments? Towards a political ecology of international law presented by Dr Eliana Cusato at University of Oxford

What is secret sauce in chatGPT? by Peter Waters of Gilbert + Tobin

Australian manuka honey producers score legal win over New Zealand producers in Europe, UK by Clint Jasper on ABC News

Labor flags law reforms to stop cases involving national security being cloaked in secrecy by Henry Belot and Christopher Knaus on The Guardian

System to protect Australia's threatened species from development ‘more or less worthless’, study finds by Graham Readfearn on The Guardian

Wrenching open the black box by Julian Fell, Ben Spraggon, and Matt Liddy on Story Lab (ABC)

An environmental court in action : function, doctrine and process / Elizabeth Fisher and Brian Preston (eds)

Hayes & Eburn criminal law and procedure in New South Wales (7th ed) / Roderick N. Howie, Paul Sattler and Marissa Hood

Limitation of actions : the laws of Australia (5th ed) / Peter Handford

Macquarie dictionary : Australia's national dictionary (8th ed) / Alison Moore (ed)

Mann's annotated Insurance Contracts Act (8th ed) / Peter Mann and Stanley Drummond

Offensive speech, religion, and the limits of the law / Nicholas Hatzis

Pizer's annotated VCAT Act (7th ed) / Emrys Nekvapil

Proclamations commencing Acts

Fisheries Management Amendment Act 2015 No 59 (2023-10) — published LW 20 January 2023

Public Interest Disclosures Act 2022 No 14 (2023-11) — published LW 20 January 2023

Human rights in the administrative decision-making process : Moncrief-Spittle v Regional Facilities Auckland Limited [2022] NZSC 138 by Paul Daly on Administrative Law Matters

Inaugural Michael Kirby lecture, keynote address delivered by the Attorney-General of Australia, the Hon Mark Dreyfus KC MP

'Law as the art of justice' : on Vermeule's common good constitutionalism by John Tasioulas, University of Oxford

Law Report (ABC) for 17 January presented by Damien Carrick - Judicial review to examine 'Croatian six' convictions

Lawless women in the Court of Star Chamber by Krista J. Kesselring on Legal History Miscellany

Personal injury claims, 'obvious risks' and liability by Peter Miller of McCabes

Rawls' theory of justice presented by Melvyn Bragg on In Our Time (BBC)

Redefining long service leave in NSW : "substantial connection" test changed by Amber Sharp and Kerry O'Brien of McCullough Robertson

Safeguard mechanism reforms : exposure draft rules released by Emily Morison, Ilona Millar and Ashleigh McCoach of Gilbert + Tobin

Butcher v New Zealand Transport Agency [2022] NZHRRT 21 - requiring a photo on a driver's license did not interfere with a man's freedom of religion

Moncrief-Spittle v Regional Facilities Auckland Limited [2022] NZSC 138 - freedom of speech

R v Vincent [2023] NSWSC 8 - "The Bugmy Bar Book research is a useful resource which has assisted the Court in understanding the impact of remand in custody, even for short periods"

For the first time, the UK has used Section 35 to veto a Scottish law. Here's what that means by Jacqueline Howard on ABC

Journalists angered by new Australian federal court restrictions on reporting of cases by Christopher Knaus in The Guardian

User-friendly legislation : why we need it, and how to achieve it by Dr William Isdale and Nicholas Simoes da Silva, ALRC News

The Attorney-Generals' Department is seeking submissions on establishment of a Federal Judicial Commission.

See details here.

The deadline for submissions is 21 February 2023.

Attend : The Role of the Modern Solicitor-General, presented by Dr Conor McCormick and Professor Gabrielle Appleby, from The Australian Institute of Administrative Law

Time : Tuesday 21st of February 2023, 4:30 pm AEST, online.

See details here.

Due to works taking place in the building the Bar Library is physically inaccessible until Friday 27 January.

From Monday 9 January until Thursday 26 January we are working remotely and the library hours are 9-5.

The library reopens to members on Friday 27 January when normal operating hours (8:30-5:30) will resume.

When we are working remotely please email libref@nswbar.asn.au.

Data property by James Grimmelmann and Christina Mulligan, American University Law Review, Forthcoming

Getting your head around Artificial Intelligence by Sheila McGregor, Lesley Sutton, Simon Burns, Michael Burns, Melissa Fai, Tim Gole and Andrew Hii of Gilbert + Tobin

Higher penalties and other Privacy Act amendments commence by James North and Lachlan Ellison of Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Human rights : beyond tragedies and atrocities presented by Professor Philip Alston AO, 2022 Geoffrey Sawer Lecture

Is it better to review or monitor terror laws? The UK and Australian positions compared, The Inner Temple Social Context of the Law Lecture by Jonathan Hall KC and Dr James Renwick CSC SC, moderated by Rory Phillips KC

Law Report (ABC) for 3 January presented by Damien Carrick - Can machines invent and animals create?

Law Report (ABC) for 12 January presented by Damien Carrick - Who should be held legally liable for accidents involving e-scooters?

Making sense of evil law by Anna Lukina, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 14/2022

The misunderstood history of textualism by Tara Leigh Grove, Forthcoming, Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 117, No. 4, 2023

'No reason to believe' : the Governor-General and the Secret Ministries by Ryan Goss on Australian Public Law

When 'will' a religious ceremony constitute a legal marriage (and therefore revoke an earlier will)? by Simon Crawford and Angela Liaskos of HWL Ebsworth

An AI lawyer is set to appear in court in a world first. Does it spell the end for costly legal fees? by Tom Canetti on SBS

Can a tarot card reading be defamatory? by Ken White on The Popehat Report

Decorated former lawyer David Woodroffe formally sworn in as Northern Territory's first Aboriginal court judge by Matt Garrick on ABC

Here's why milk comes in bags in parts of Canada by Anis Heydari on CBC

Why 2023 will be a watershed year for climate litigation by Isabella Kaminski in The Guardian

The wondrous universe of law : the ALRC's DataHub and a new age of legal exploration, ALRC media release

Re KF [2022] VSC 349 - bail for First Nations people with Bugmy considerations

Kumova v Davison (No 2) [2023] FCA 1 - defamation, Twitter

Wilson v Qantas Airways Limited (Civil Claims) [2022] VCAT 1461 - Airline rewards program: card issued in error: representation of lifetime status; claim for retention of status; no entitlement to be afforded Lifetime membership.

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Due to works taking place in the building the Bar Library is physically inaccessible until Friday 27 January.

From Monday 9 January until Thursday 26 January we are working remotely and the library hours are 9-5.

The library reopens to members on Friday 27 January when normal operating hours (8:30-5:30) will resume.

When we are working remotely please email libref@nswbar.asn.au.