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Responsive Regulation and Comparative Consumer Product Safety

Nottage, Luke R. - 2011

This paper, an edited and footnoted transcript of a presentation at a research Centre of Excellence at Hokkaido University, looks at the influence of “responsive regulation” theory on the large-scale “Australian Consumer Law” reforms enacted in 2010. It outlines some frameworks developed...

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Uneasy or Accommodating Bedfellows? Common Law and Statute in Employment Regulation

Riley, Joellen - 2013

In 2005, Professor Phillipa Weeks published an insightful chapter entitled ‘Employment Law – A Test of Coherence Between Statute and Common Law' in S Corcoran and S Bottomley (eds) Interpreting Statutes. That chapter examined the emergence, development and ultimate emasculation of an implied...

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Re-Regulating Global Finance with the Poor in Mind : A Policy Paper

Kinley, David - 2008

For the poor, finance is always about much more than economics. In practical as well as philosophical terms it is a matter of basic human rights. As the dust begins to settle on the global financial crisis it is certain that all economies will suffer, but it is in the poorest, least developed...

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Parents' and Children's Views on Talking to Judges in Parenting Disputes in Australia

Parkinson, Patrick - 2007

Judicial interviews with children in contested parenting proceedings are an uncommon and contentious practice in Australia and many other common law jurisdictions. While there has been some debate about the merits and risks of such a practice among professionals and academic commentators, there...

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Judicial Conversations With Children in Parenting Disputes : The Views of Australian Judges

Parkinson, Patrick - 2007

Judicial interviews with children in contested parenting proceedings are an uncommon and contentious practice in Australia and many other common law jurisdictions. This article reports on a study of the views of Australian judges concerning talking with children in chambers. Most judges were...

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Law's Legitimacy and 'Democracy-Plus'

Sadurski, Wojciech - 2007

Is it the case that the law, in order to be fully legitimate, must not only be adopted in a procedurally correct way but must also comply with certain substantive values? In the first part of the article I prepare the ground for the discussion of legitimacy of democratic laws by considering the...

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Nothing New in the (North) East? Interpreting the Rhetoric and Reality of Japanese Corporate Governance

Nottage, Luke R. - 2006

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Compensation and the Stolen Children : Political Judgments and Community Values

Graycar, Reg - 2007

This discussion considers the response of the Australian Federal Government, and some of the conservative media, to the 1997 report of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, quot;Bringing them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait...

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Legislative Intervention in the Law of Negligence : The Common Law, Statutory Interpretation and Tort Reform in Australia

McDonald, Barbara - 2006

This article uses the context of tort reform legislation to trace the impact of legislation on the principles and …, does the legislation cover the field, does statutory reform allow continuing development of common law principles. As … remain unaffected by tort reform legislation and thus subject to continuing development as common law …

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The Australian LNG Industry : Legal and Commercial Challenges

Crossley, Penelope - 2017

Australia will become the world's largest LNG producer by 2018. This Chapter explores the development of the Australian LNG industry. It then analyses some of the legal and commercial issues currently being experienced by the Australian LNG industry. In particular, it will evaluate the legal...

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