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New books

Tue Apr 01 2025

New and updated NSW Bills

Tue Apr 01 2025
In progress

Civil Liability Amendment (Organisational Child Abuse Liability) Bill 2025 - in Legislative Council, 2R, Debate adjourned 5 calendar days, Wed 26 Mar 2025

Community Improvement Districts Bill 2025 - in Legislative Assembly, 2R Debate, Debate adjourned 5 clear days, Wed 19 Mar 2025

Crimes (Sentencing Procedure) Amendment Bill 2025 - in Legislative Assembly, 2R Debate, Debate adjourned 5 clear days, Wed 26 Mar 2025

Crimes Legislation Amendment (Racial and Religious Hatred Legislation Repeal) Bill 2025 - in Legislative Council, 2R, Debate adjourned 5 calendar days, Wed 19 Mar 2025

Cultural Institutions Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 - in Legislative Council, 2R, Debate adjourned 5 calendar days, Thu 27 Mar 2025

Electoral Amendment (Voter ID and Electronic Mark Off) Bill 2024 (No 2) - in Legislative Assembly, 2R Debate, Debate interrupted, Thu 27 Mar 2025

Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment Bill 2025 - in Legislative Council, Consideration in Committee of the Whole, Debate adjourned, Thu 27 Mar 2025

Health Services Amendment (PPP Prohibition) Bill 2025 - in Legislative Assembly, 2R Debate, Debate adjourned 5 clear days, Thu 27 Mar 2025

Health Services Amendment (Splitting of the Murrumbidgee Local Health District) Bill 2025 - in Legislative Assembly, 2R Debate, Debate adjourned 5 clear days, Thu 27 Mar 2025

Justices of the Peace Amendment Bill 2025 - in Legislative Assembly, 2R Debate, Debate adjourned 5 clear days, Tue 25 Mar 2025

Product Lifecycle Responsibility Bill 2025 - in Legislative Council, 2R, Debate adjourned 5 calendar days, Tue 18 Mar 2025

Roads Amendment (Wildlife Impacts) Bill 2024 - in Legislative Assembly, 2R Debate, Debate adjourned 5 clear days, Thu 27 Mar 2025

Road Transport Legislation Amendment (Post-Crash Drug and Alcohol Testing) Bill 2025 - in Legislative Council, 2R, Debate adjourned 5 calendar days, Tue 25 Mar 2025

Screen and Digital Games Industries Bill 2025 - in Legislative Council, 2R, Debate adjourned 5 calendar days, Tue 18 Mar 2025

Statute Law Amendment (Administrative Appeals Tribunal) Bill 2025 - in Legislative Assembly, Awaiting Minister's 2R Speech, Wed 19 Mar 2025

Notice of motion

Crimes and Roads Legislation Amendment (Obstruction Offences Repeals) Bill 2025 - in Legislative Assembly, Notice of Motion, Tue 25 Mar 2025

Crimes Legislation Amendment (Obstruction Laws Repeal) Bill 2025 - in Legislative Assembly, Notice of Motion, Tue 18 Mar 2025

Electoral Funding Amendment (Major Political Donors) Bill 2025 - in Legislative Council, Notice of Motion, Tue 25 Mar 2025

Human Rights Bill 2025 - in Legislative Assembly, Notice of Motion, Wed 19 Mar 2025

Plastic Reduction and Circular Economy Amendment (Further Chemicals and Products) Bill 2025 - in Legislative Assembly, Notice of Motion, Tue 25 Mar 2025

Awaiting assent

Automatic Mutual Recognition Legislation Amendment Bill 2024 - Awaiting Assent, Tue 18 Mar 2025

Bail Amendment (Extension of Limitation on Bail in Certain Circumstances) Bill 2025 - Awaiting Assent, Tue 25 Mar 2025

Claim Farming Practices Prohibition Bill 2025 - Awaiting Assent, Thu 27 Mar 2025

Industrial Relations Amendment (Transport Sector Gig Workers and Others) Bill 2025 - Awaiting Assent, Thu 27 Mar 2025

Work Health and Safety Amendment (Standalone Regulator) Bill 2025 - Awaiting Assent, Tue 25 Mar 2025

Proclamations commencing Acts

Bail and Other Legislation Amendment (Domestic Violence) Act 2024 No 30 (2025-99) — published LW 14 March 2025

Jury Amendment Act 2024 No 24 (2025-55) — published LW 28 February 2025

Withdrawn, negatived or lapsed

Civil Liability Amendment (Organisational Child Abuse Liability) Bill 2024 - in Legislative Council, Notice of Motion Withdrawn, Wed 19 Mar 2025

Plastic Reduction and Circular Economy Amendment (Further Chemicals and Products) Bill 2024 - Lapsed in Accordance with Standing Orders, Tue 18 Mar 2025

Ports and Maritime Administration Amendment (White Bay Cruise Terminal—Shore Power) Bill 2024 - Negatived, Thu 20 Mar 2025

Interesting articles, speeches and podcasts

Tue Apr 01 2025

The 5 cases podcast presented by Caitlin Akthar of Forbes Chambers, Sophie Anderson of Commercial Bank Chambers and Paul Coady of Public Defenders Chambers - Episode 16 : Sophie and Caitlin discuss coercive control, extending AVOs in order to revoke them, the Liberato direction and the assessment of objective seriousness on sentence in the following cases : Pickford & Pickford [2024] FedCFamC1A 249, Elahmad v R [2024] NSWCCA 250, Commissioner of NSW Police v Murphy [2024] NSWCA 311, Evans v R; Evans v R [2024] NSWCCA 245, JL v R [2024] NSWCCA 246, see older episodes here

'Best' interests by M. Scott Donald on SSRN

Combating 'broification', 'Baby Reindeer'-like workplace conduct, and the entrenched gender pay gap by Penny Thew in Lawyers Weekly

Deepfakes can ruin lives and livelihoods – would owning the 'rights' to our own faces and voices help? by Graeme Austin and Jane C Ginsburg on The Conversation

Dynamic competition and digital platforms by Darcy W. E. Allen, Dirk Auer, Chris Berg, Aaron M. Lane, Geoffrey A. Manne, Jason Potts and Lazar Radic on SSRN

If Warhol used a computer to create art, why not AI? by Peter Waters of Gilbert + Tobin

Law Report (ABC) for 25 February presented by Damien Carrick - Do expanded federal surveillance laws go too far? And report warns private practitioners abandoning Legal Aid work

Peaks and pitfalls, Chief Justice Mortimer at South Australian Bar Association

SkyKick in the UKSC : is the sky a limit at all? by Dr Stuart Baran, CIPIL Evening Seminar

The Wigs Podcast from Stephen Lawrence (Black Chambers), Emmanuel Kerkyasharian (Forbes Chambers), Felicity Graham (Black Chambers) and Jim Minns - Proactive Policing : The Wigs Interview Journalist Paul Farrell

The Wigs Podcast from Stephen Lawrence (Black Chambers), Emmanuel Kerkyasharian (Forbes Chambers), Felicity Graham (Black Chambers) and Jim Minns - Trying Historic Abuse Claims Without the Accused

You do not have to say anything presented by Joanna Hardy Susskind on BBC Sounds