From 1890 to 1892, Sir Samuel Griffith, as Premier of Queensland, promoted a scheme under which Queensland would itself have been divided into a federation of initially three provinces — North, Central and South Queensland — and then two provinces,…
Export controls are gradually emerging as a source of contention within the World Trade Organisation (‘WTO’) law. Resource-exporting developing countries are increasingly finding it difficult to reserve the use of commodities and mineral resources…
The recent Review of Freedom of Speech in Australian Higher Education Providers (‘the Review’), overseen by the Hon Robert French AC, identified areas for improving freedom of speech and academic freedom, and to that end proposed the adoption of…
Interest in Australian private international law has rekindled over the past decade. Australian courts are contending with more transnational litigation than ever before, facilitated by the ease with which people, business and information now cross…
This eponymous book on the general part of the law of contract will be the standard Australian work for some time to come. It aims to provide a guide to that legion of legal readers ‘who are searching for basic statements of contract law’.
Some judges and writers have been moving our regulation of opportunism off its conceptual rails. Numerous departures from convention presently are nesting in the jurisprudence and the literature. None of the departures are justified, and all should…
The Civil Liability Acts place significant limitations and caps on the damages that are recoverable for claims caught by those Acts or relevant parts thereof. Such limitations and preclusions significantly impact on what were plaintiffs’ existing…
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…
Human rights legislation in the Australian Capital Territory (‘ACT’), Victoria and Queensland contains interpretive provisions to the effect that legislation is to be interpreted consistently or compatibly with the rights set out in the relevant…
As Australian corporate conduct came under intense and highly publicised scrutiny during the banking Royal Commission, so too did the conduct of the conduct regulator: the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (‘ASIC’). Following the Royal…
