This thought-provoking book by Brian Christopher Jones entitled Constitutional Idolatry and Democracy begins by retelling the moment when, during the highly disputed election period of 2016 in the United States of America, an elector waived his…
This article examines the process for seeking redress under Australia’s racial vilification laws. Recently, the debate concerning pt IIA of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) has focused on unmeritorious complaints and the importance of quickly…
Criminal law regulators face difficulties in adapting to technological change. They must often operate in environments of significant uncertainty, with changing policy aims and legislative provisions that fail to ‘move with the times’. Rather than…
In this article we examine the recent High Court decision in LibertyWorks Inc v Commonwealth of Australia (‘LibertyWorks’). We argue that this decision fails to properly apply the implied freedom of political communication (the ‘implied freedom’)…
The ecosystem services concept is a useful tool in environmental law, as it allows nature to be considered on the same plane of comparison as proposed development. However, the concept has received significant criticism, with many critics arguing…
This article provides the first comprehensive analysis of Queensland’s new ‘journalist privilege’ provisions (or ‘shield law’), introduced into Div 2B of the Evidence Act 1977 (Qld) in 2022, and evaluates the merits of these provisions against…
The criminal regime in Chapter 7 of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) contains 299 separate offences and is extremely complex. This paper undertakes the first detailed examination of the criminal regime in Chapter 7 in anticipation of an increase in…
Mobile phones are more than just telephonic devices; they have the capability to store,retrieve and access potentially endless meta-data, including the personal informationof an individual and his or her associates. In a landmark decision of 2014,…
Humanity now possesses the capacity and technology to pursue radical humanenhancement, presenting fundamental challenges for the regulation of elite sport. Inorder to regulate not only performance enhancement, but also human enhancement,the World…
There is a substantive distinction between accessories who do, and those who do not,undertake to serve the beneficiaries of a fiduciary function. Where the access ofaccessories to beneficiary assets is limited, they are directly accountable as…
