The Library Bulletin

• Alternative Law Journal Vol 42 No 2, 2017 - In this issue: Big Data: A case study of disruption and government power Kate Galloway / Presumption of innocence in peril Anthony Gray / Reformative and rehabilitative programs for prisoners with cognitive impairments: Australia's international obligations Emma Henderson, Nicole Shackleton and Stephanie Falconer / Anti-protest laws: Lock up your nannas Aidan Ricketts / An 'absolute right to do anything': Protest policing in NSW's last decade of full-time riot squad Christina White / Crime prevention and prisoner rehabilitation in Australia: Lessons from Nordic nations Andrew Scott / Contract cheating: Will students pay for serious criminal consequences? Alex Steel / Working Animal's rights: A disruption to the status quo Rosemary Shaw / Rethinking legal regulation of animal hoarding Meg Wootten / Disability discrimination in children's sport Simone Pearce / The right to refuse: The Victorian Mental Health Act 2014 and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Chris Maylea and Asher Hirsch / Culture, humility and the law: Towards a more transformative teaching framework Evan Hamman / Therapeutic jurisprudence in sentencing remarks: An exploratory study Jordan Tutton

• Cheshire & Fifoot's law of contract, eleventh Australian edition / N C Seddon, R A Bigwood and M P Ellinghaus
• Intellectual property in Australia / Andrew Stewart, Philip Griffith, Judith Bannister and Adam Liberman
• A history of Australian legal education / David Barker
• Culpable carelessness : recklessness and negligence in the criminal law / Findlay Stark
• The guide to construction arbitration / Stavros Brekoulakis and David Brynmor Thomas (eds)
• Who's who of Australian women 2017

• Dr David Jones' great contribution to the State Library of NSW, to the library & information profession & libraries in general during his career has been recognised with the HCL Anderson Award. Dr Jones is the father of 4 Selborne's Oliver Jones, Barrister. A great example of a relationship of symbiotic mutualism; all good barristers need great librarians in their life!

• What NASA’s simulated missions tell us about the need for Martian law Six people recently returned from an eight-month long isolation experiment to test human endurance for long-term space missions. Their “journey to Mars” involved being isolated below the summit of the world’s largest active volcano in Hawaii (Mauna Loa), and was designed to better understand the psychological impacts of manned missions. It seems humans are on the inevitable trajectory to colonise Mars. It is therefore becoming important to ask what laws will govern humans on Mars as it is to ask whether we could survive on the planet’s surface.

• Tinder date killer sentenced to 30 years A man who stabbed and killed his ex-partner's Tinder date in a Sydney restaurant has been sentenced to at least 30 years in jail.

• Bar to consult on scrapping LGBT reporting restrictions The Bar Standards Board is considering dropping a rule that allows one barrister to prevent an entire set from revealing the sexual orientation and religious beliefs of its members.

• History was made this week when the NSW Government passed the nation's first Aboriginal languages legislation, The Aboriginal Languages Bill. The legislation recognises the importance of Aboriginal languages within the state and also seeks to protect them.

• Modern Law Review Vol 80 No 5 - In this Issue -
• A Normative approach to the Quistclose Trust Emily Hudson / Post-Sovereignty and the Europeal legal space Nathan Gibbs / Wrong about Rights: Public knowledge of key areas of consumer, housing and employment law in England and Wales Pascoe Pleasence, Nigel J. Balmer, and Catrina Denvir / Metamorphosis in Hans Kelsen's Legal Philosophy Stanley L. Paulson / Consumer redress legislation: Simplifying or subverting the law of contract Elise Bant & Jeannie Marie Paterson / Criminal Law and ethics: beyond normative assertion and its critiquw Alan Norrie / Ex Turpi Causa; reformation not revolution Ernest Lim / A director's suty of loyalty and the relevance of the company's scope of business: Cheng Wai Tao v Poon Ka Man Jason Pearlie Koh

• Australian Law Reports Vol 345 Part 1 - Cases reported in this part -
• Australian Energy Regulator v Australian Competition Tribunal

Australian Corporations and Securities Reports Vol 120 Part 3- Cases reported in this part -

• Australian Securities and Investments Commission v Avestra Asset Management Ltd (ACN 119
• 227 440) (in liq) (FCA — Beach J)
• K J Renfrey Nominees Pty Ltd (as trustee for the Renfrey Family Trust) v Onesteel Manufacturing Pty Ltd (subject to deed of company arrangement) (FCA — Davies J)
• Kaizen Global Investments Ltd v Australia New Agribusiness & Chemical Group Ltd (ACN 142 976 065) (in liq) (FCA — Moshinsky J)
• Longley (as liquidators of Linc Energy Ltd (ACN 076 157 045) (in liq)) v Chief Executive,
• Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (QSC — Jackson J)
• Northern Managed Finance Pty Ltd v 4 In 1Wyoming Pty Ltd (ACN 145 601 618) (and other named
• First Defendants in Schedule A to the Originating Process) (NSWSC — Gleeson JA)
• Oreb v Australian Securities and Investments Commission (No 2) (FCAFC — Full Court)

Looseleaf in digital format! Lexis Red is a digital app which lets you access looseleaf services online. The library has recently switched to the new & improved Lexis Red 3.0. If you already use Lexis Red you will be automatically updated once you log into your account. If you want to sign up or have any questions, email Meeghan and she will set you up with an account - moliver@nswbar.asn.au

• Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel Prize in Literature Ishiguro, author of novels including The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, was praised by the Academy for novels which “uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world” and were driven by “great emotional force”.

• Law Society Journal Issue 38 (October) 2017 - In this issue - The inherent power of giving: how one lawyer's pro bono experience abroad changed her life and her career / Bill of Rights: Professor George Williams and Anthony Levin examine the vexed question of whether Australia needs a Bill of Rights / Former sex discrimination commissioner Liz Broderick on why work for advocates is getting harder

• We hope you had a great day today, it's world smile day!

• Why I defended Ben McCormack Ben McCormack’s lawyer Sam Macedone is targeted by trolls after child porn case. He has responded to the hate-filled messages he is receiving, explaining why he took on the case.

• Commonwealth Law Reports Vol 259 Part 1 - Cases reported in this part:
• Attwells v Jackson Lalic Lawyers Pty Ltd
• ElecNet (Aust) Pty Ltd v Federal Commissioner of Taxation
• Sio v The Queen
• Western Australia Planning Commission v Leith
• Western Australia Planning Commission v Southregal Pty Ltd

• Watching out : reflections on justice and injustice / Julian Burnside
• Australia's Constitution after Whitlam / Brendan Lim
• The modern contract of employment / Ian Neill and David Chin
• Artificial intelligence and legal analytics : new tools for law practice in the digital age /Kevin D Ashley

Looking for the Noteup feature on the new Austlii? It is now under the "Cited By" heading in the document sidebar. [Click here to see how it looks].(http://library.nswbar.asn.au/ExternalDocs/Bar Brief/Noteup.pdf "") You can Noteup from both the Legislation and Case law databases, plus you can also check LawCite references in the Case law databases.

• Twitter in court over 'venomous tweets' An Australian firm has taken Twitter to court after confidential financial information was leaked in a series of "venomous tweets" by someone impersonating the firm's CEO and another senior officer.

• Motor Vehicle Reports 80(3) Cases reported -
• Allianz Australia Insurance Ltd v Mashaghati (QCA — Full Court)
• Apostolakos v Police (SASC — Stanley J)
• Boyce v Allianz Australia Insurance Ltd (NSWSC — Fagan J)
• Bruce v QBE Insurance (Australia) Ltd (NSWSC — Lonergan J)
• Choolum v Heath (NTSC — Hiley J)
• Johnson v Police (SASC — Stanley J)
• Peter v Wade (ACTSC — Murrell CJ)
• Stocks v R (VSCA — Full Court)
• Valencic v Jordan (ACTSC — Penfold J)

• Courts, litigants, and the digital age : law, ethics, and practice / Karen Eltis
• Culpable carelessness : recklessness and negligence in the criminal law / Findlay Stark
• Property in the body : feminist perspectives / Donna Dickenson
• International dispute settlement / J G Merrills

• Major family law review receives backing from LCA Mr Brandis revealed law week he has commissioned the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) to undertake the “first comprehensive review of the family law system since the commencement of the Family Law in 1976”. The significant review into Australia’s family law system has gathered support from the nation’s peak legal body.

• Indigenous groups renew call for target to reduce incarceration Indigenous groups have renewed calls for the creation of an Indigenous incarceration reduction target, after a leaked letter showed the government is just weeks away from going public with a refresh of its failing Closing the Gap strategy.

• Trust Quarterly Review [TQR] Volume 15, Issue 3 2017 In this issue - New Zealand Foreign Trust Regime Henry Brandts-Giesen and Sarah Kelly /Protections Against Financial Abuse Ann Stanyer / Testamentary Freedom In Canada Ed Esposto /Trust Registers and the CRS John Riches

• Silk replaces outgoing NSW District Court judge Barrister Tim Gartelmann SC has been named as the next appointment to the NSW District Court, following the retirement of Judge Martin Sides QC.

• Malcolm Roberts signed citizenship form without reading it, High Court hears Under questioning from counsel assisting the court, Senator Roberts said his father had given him an Australian citizenship form in 1974 which his then-16-year-old sister filled out and he signed without reading.

It's a gift from the entrance gods - the access door to the NSW Bar Association has been opened for a trial period. No more long queues for the elevator to ascend from or descend to the depths from the outside world - you may now take the stairs to the Bar Association, the library or wherever else you might like to go!

• Motor Accidents (Determination of Non-Economic Loss) Amendment Order 2017 (NSW) The object of this Order is to adjust, for the year commencing 1 October 2017, the maximum amounts that may be awarded for damages for non-economic loss to persons who have been injured as a consequence of a motor accident to which the Motor Accidents Act 1988 applies

• Motor Accidents Compensation (Determination of Loss) Amendment Order 2017 (NSW) The object of this Order is to adjust, for the year commencing 1 October 2017, the maximum amount that may be awarded for damages. Section 146 of the Motor Accidents Compensation Act 1999 requires the Minister to declare the amounts on or before 1 October in each year. The amounts are indexed by reference to movements in average weekly earnings.

• Motor Accidents (Determination of Non-Economic Loss) Amendment Order 2017 (NSW) The object of this Order is to adjust, for the year commencing 1 October 2017, the maximum amounts that may be awarded for damages for non-economic loss to persons who have been injured as a consequence of a motor accident to which the Motor Accidents Act 1988 applies

• Civil Liability (Non-economic Loss) Amendment Order 2017 (NSW) - amendment to the Civil Liability (Non-economic Loss) Order 2010 to adjust, for the year commencing 1 October 2017, the maximum amount that may be awarded for damages for non-economic loss under the Civil Liability Act 2002 (the Act). Section 17 of the Act requires the Minister to declare the amount in each year. The amount is to be indexed by reference to movements in average weekly earnings.

• Motor Accidents Compensation (Determination of Loss) Amendment Order 2017 (NSW) The object of this Order is to adjust, for the year commencing 1 October 2017, the maximum amount that may be awarded for damages. Section 146 of the Motor Accidents Compensation Act 1999 requires the Minister to declare the amounts on or before 1 October in each year. The amounts are indexed by reference to movements in average weekly earnings.

• Motor Accidents (Determination of Non-Economic Loss) Amendment Order 2017 (NSW) The object of this Order is to adjust, for the year commencing 1 October 2017, the maximum amounts that may be awarded for damages for non-economic loss to persons who have been injured as a consequence of a motor accident to which the Motor Accidents Act 1988 applies