This paper focuses on the current role of director obligations in respect of the dual public and private nature of the statutory duty of care and diligence. A discussion on the history and development of the duty will be undertaken to assist in…
The Australian Bureau of Statistics have reported that Australia’s population is ageing at
an incremental rate, and a recent National Prevalence Study into elder abuse found that a
significant proportion of those older Australians are experiencing…
The Parthenon Marbles (‘the Marbles’) extraction from Greece to the United Kingdom in the nineteenth century by Thomas Bruce, 7th Lord of Elgin, where it remains today in the British Museum, has been part of controversial public debate about who…
This commentary responds to Patrick Tyson’s article in this volume which analyses Australia’s new website blocking laws. It begins by explaining the context in which these provisions were added to the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) and then considers some…
In an attempt to tackle the pervasive problem of online copyright infringement, the Federal Parliament of Australia inserted s 115A into the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth) in 2015. Section 115A essentially permits the Federal Court of Australia to order an…
This commentary responds to Alex Lazar’s article in this volume entitled ‘Home-Sharing in South Australia: Protecting the Rights of Hosts, Guests, and Neighbours’. It concurs with two conclusions reached by Lazar: first, that there is adequate legal…
This commentary responds to the primary article by Alex Lazar in this volume entitled ‘Home-Sharing in South Australia: Protecting the Rights of Hosts, Guests and Neighbours’. It provides some insights into the Airbnb home-sharing model from a…
Internet facilitated home-sharing services like Airbnb present new challenges for South Australian law because they appear to create seemingly novel legal relationships. This article considers whether South Australian law adequately protects the…
This article provides a response to the article in this volume entitled ‘Responding to Doxing in Australia: Towards a Right to Information Self-determination?’ by Åste Corbridge. It begins in Part I by considering some of the elements which might be…
