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Dowling's Select Cases: 1828 to 1844

Politics & Social Sciences

Unknown, Author

Social Sciences

Federation Press

Criminal Discovery. Federation Press. 2008.

Cosmas Moisidis

It has been seven years since the last edition of Professor Zines's classic book, The High Court and the Constitution. In that time the High Court has handed down a range of important decisions transforming, extending and developing existing constitutional law principles. The 6th edition of the book, by Dr James Stellios, contains analysis and critique of the High Court's jurisprudence over that period. Changes have been made to all chapters to update the existing law. However, the most significant updates relate to: <ul>
<li>The reformulation of the Commonwealth's executive power to contract and spend following the High Court's decisions in Pape and the two Williams cases; </li> <li>The High Court's continuing development of Chapter III principles, particularly its renewed interest in the Kable limitation on State Parliaments; </li> <li>The uncertainties appearing in recent High Court cases on the implied freedom of political communication; </li> <li>The High Court's application of s 92 to national markets in the internet-based new economy.</li>
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Zines's the High Court and the Constitution

Stellios, James

This book is the first in Australia dedicated to the legal environment of our universities. The law both drives and governs the evolution of Australia's strong and vibrant system of higher education. Here, experts explore a wide range of areas of topical and salient interest, providing a comprehensive resource for those both within and outside the sector, including managers, governors, academics, legal practitioners and all who have an interest in the impact of the law on its operations. While their primary function today remains the provision of higher education and research, Australia's universities are now large commercial global corporations. Their operations involve the management of a diverse range of relationships, both internal and external, and the law plays a central role in these. Higher Education and the Law first considers the legal framework of the higher education sector and the relationships universities have externally, particularly with government - their governance, their funding and accountability, and their maintenance of high standards and quality. It then traverses many of the areas where the law has a significant impact on the relationships universities have with their students and their staff. In a clear and readable style, the book covers matters from anti-discrimination and equal opportunity, transparency and due process in decision-making, employment and student matters, to property rights such as copyright and ownership of intellectual property. It focuses on those issues of the most practical relevance to today's higher education environment.

Higher Education and the Law

Written by leading evidence law scholars, combined with practitioner contribution, The Trial examines procedural and evidentiary law under the uniform Evidence Acts. This is a book for evidence law students, scholars and for practising lawyers. The Trial challenges mainstream approaches to teaching evidence law by: <ul>
<li>contextualising the trial within key pre-trial processes, including police questioning, disclosure obligations and pleadings; </li> <li>connecting law reform, lawyers' roles and their ethical obligations to promote justice in a broad rather than a narrow, anodyne or legalistic fashion; </li> <li>acknowledging 21st century lawyers' need for literacy across human rights fair trial norms and their common law equivalents; and </li> <li>its interdisciplinary emphasis.</li>
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The Trial focuses its study on the important functions of adversarialism and the oral tradition, as well as the consequential price exacted through diminishing access to justice for the vulnerable, particularly those with mental illness or cognitive impairment, children and sexual assault complainant witnesses. Regarding Indigenous Australians, The Trial also shows how such challenges compound the pre-existing harshness of criminal justice processes. In Australia, no comprehensive evidence book presents doctrinal analysis so comprehensively within a humanising context. The Trial places the criminal jury trial centre-stage. This is where the law of evidence and procedure is commonly hotly contested, where major defining evidentiary case law arises and where the cut and thrust of advocacy, crucially shaping the trial, are classically on show. It is also where rapid change has an impact on expertise and, through law reform, creates pressures on fundamental accusatorial principles in an increasingly complex justice environment.

The Trial: Principles, Process and Evidence

Hunter, Jill

Lawyers in Australia is a wide-ranging and detailed examination of the legal profession and its ethical framework. It contextualises the role, responsibilities and ethics of lawyers in contemporary Australian society and discusses recent trends and issues. It has proved to be a popular text for the teaching of Legal Ethics courses since the first edition in 2007. This third edition incorporates the latest developments in both law and contextual issues, and provides detailed coverage of the new Legal Profession Uniform Law and associated Rules. It also updates statistical information relating to lawyers and the make-up of the legal profession in Australia, and references recent studies and commentary in relation to lawyers and the legal profession. Revised discussion and research questions relating to each chapter continue to make it a useful teaching resource. Its detailed examination of the legal profession, its ethical framework, access to justice and consideration of future issues confronting the legal profession, all make it of interest and relevance to academic, student and practitioner.

Lawyers in Australia

Lamb, Ainslie

Littrich, John

Murray, Karina

Inspired by and honouring the contribution to Australian public law of Dennis Pearce, this collection of essays by some of Australia's most influential legal thinkers explores how the ascendency of statutes over the past few decades has come to influence the development of Australian public law. A range of current issues relating to statutory interpretation, judicial review, delegated legislation, law reform, and the culture of government are addressed here through an examination of the role of courts, tribunals, inquiries, Ombudsman offices, and freedom of information agencies. The collection provides a thorough and topical study of the role played by statutes in defining the scope of government authority and in holding that authority to account. It will serve as an invaluable resource for legal practitioners, academics, students, and others interested in the challenges confronting Australian public law and the regulation of government in the "age of statutes." Contributing authors include Margaret Allars, AJ Brown, Stephen Gageler, Susan Kenny, John McMillan, Linda Pearson, Cheryl Saunders, and Daniel Stewart.

Public Law in the Age of Statutes: Essays in Honour of Dennis Pearce

Administrative Law

Hey, everything's changed. New Women, New Men, New Economy. The commercial imperative is clear. The marketplace is choosing for us. Across the world we see organisations with more women in leadership roles delivering superior financial returns, increasing productivity and tapping the ingenuity of their people. Companies, communities and countries that are more inclusive do better, innovate more, unleash new value and prosper long term. Who are they? The authors introduce us to companies around the world, from Unilever and Google to Pixar and Arup; The Hunger Project; big consulting firms, banks and telcos; the Australian Army; as well as dynamic SMEs in Finland, Denmark, Silicon Valley and outback Australia.
New Women, New Men, New Economy describes men championing gender equality from Sydney to Toronto and women reshaping the construction industry and designing a world without waste. How are they doing it? This provocative book shows that these new women and men have cracked the leadership CODE that puts their most valuable competitive resource to work - their people. They are leaders who are embracing the principles of Creativity, Openness, Diversity and Equity and building the New Economy around us. Find out what it takes to join them. New Women, New Men, New Economy brings together new global research, case studies and diagnostic tools to help guide you through. 
 CODE UP: Creativity ignites competitiveness; In an Open world, there's no place to hide; Diversity boosts performance and problem-solving; Equity creates thriving teams and communities that build long term value.

New Women, New Men, New Economy: How Creativity, Openness, Diversity and Equity are Driving Prosperity Now

Business & Money

Hooper, Narelle

Genoff, Rodin

Pettifer, Susan

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

This is the only book devoted to the law on veterans' entitlements and military compensation in Australia. The book comprehensively annotates the Veterans' Entitlements Act 1986 (VEA) and, in this third edition, for the first time annotates the new unified military compensation scheme introduced by the Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004 (MRCA). The third edition covers all of the recent major reports into the veterans' law and military compensation system and includes annotations of all relevant High Court, Federal Court and Administrative Appeals Tribunal decisions on the two Acts. The book is an invaluable reference for all those assisting veterans to obtain their entitlements to the pensions and benefits available to those who have served their country - be they ex-service organisations, tribunal members, legal practitioners or Departmental officials. Highlights of the third edition include: <ul>
<li>a new section of the book discussing the cases on the application of Statements of Principles under the two Acts; </li> <li>comprehensive annotations of complex issues under the VEA, including qualifying service, special rate of pension, GARP, allowances, standards of proof and review of decisions; </li> <li>annotations and commentary on issues under the MRCA, including liability for compensation, incapacity, permanent impairment, death benefits, and transitional arrangements for previous schemes; </li> <li>the interaction between the VEA and the MRCA; and </li> <li>appendices which include an amendment history of the VEA and of the MRCA, an index of MRCA legislative instruments, discussion of defence honours and awards, and war grave eligibility.</li>
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Veterans' Entitlements and Military Compensation Law

SUTHERLAND, Peter

Creyke, Robin

Specialties

Prominent criminologist, David Garland, has argued that VISs have led us into 'unfamiliar territory where the ideological grounds are far from clear and the old assumptions an unreliable guide'. A victim impact statement (VIS) is a highly nuanced and individual narrative that can operate as both an informational device in the sentencing process and an expressive mechanism for crime victims. From the law perspective, VISs provide the court with details of harm caused by the offence and the consequences of the offending in order to further purposes of sentencing. As an expressive mechanism, VISs offer victims the opportunity and space to express their feelings, tell their personal story of the aftermath of crime, and be heard by the court, the offender, and the wider community. Though a well-established feature of contemporary sentencing hearings (at least in superior courts) VISs remain controversial in common law jurisdictions. The 'non-legal' nature of VISs has generated uncertainty in relation to the functioning of the sentencing hearing and concerns have been raised that VISs are: inconsistent with established legal values, detrimental to the offender's entitlement to a fair hearing, detrimental to victims' wellbeing, and harmful to the integrity of the legal proceedings. Accommodating Justice: Victim Impact Statements in the Sentencing Process explores the complex territory where VISs, the law and legal institutions intersect with a focus on the requirements of fairness, most particularly in the courtroom. And it does so from multiple perspectives: courts, offenders and victims. The book draws from a range of theoretical and doctrinal sources as well as empirical studies from Australia, Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. An ethnographic study of the performance of VISs in homicide sentencing hearings in the NSW Supreme Court woven through most chapters provides an innovative and evidence-based approach to the issues.

Accommodating Justice: Victim Impact Statements in the Sentencing Process

Booth, Tracey

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