In vivo conversion is a process, often metabolic in nature, wherein one substance, usually a chemical compound, is altered significantly by physiological pathways in the body into one or more different substances. For example, when a patient ingests a therapeutic drug, that drug is often...

An issue that remains unresolved in relation to the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods is the role played by good faith. As its name implies, the CISG governs the formation of certain contracts across international boundaries. Because its good faith...

In recent years, courts in Canada and Australia have been asked to make orders suppressing publication in the mass media of both evidence given in open court concerning the particular police methods used to solve cold cases and the identities of undercover police officers involved. This article...

The purpose of this article is to identify and analyse, from the perspective of the principle of open justice, the response of courts in Canada and Australia when requested by the police to suppress publication in the mass media of evidence given in open court concerning a particular police...

There has been a renewed focus on gambling and its social consequences. One potential consequence facing gamblers is bankruptcy. This article considers how gambling and gambling debts are treated in bankruptcy. It includes an examination of the extent to which gambling is a cause of bankruptcy;...

In 2006 the Australian Government undertook extensive amendment of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). Draft bills relating to technological protection measures and exceptions were released for public comment in September. Some of the provisions of those draft bills were amended on the basis of the...

It is over 30 years since the seminal decision of the House of Lords in Tesco Supermarkets Ltd v. Nattrass articulated the identification doctrine as the basis for corporate criminal liability in many common law countries. During that time, Tesco has been consistently criticised as ill-suited to...

Twenty years on we again Remeber Tim McCoy through three key policy arenas he was involved in: prisons, privacy and the national community legal centre movement. Amanda George (1999 Tim McCoy Prize winner) sends Tim a letter explaining the prisons scene, Andy Haesler reports on the state of...

* From July 2007, the Health Professions Registration Act 2005 (Vic) will significantly alter the medical disciplinary process in Victoria.* For practitioners:- Formal hearings for allegations of serious unprofessional conduct will be heard by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal...

This article examines the author's right of integrity of authorship contained in the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth), which is the right of an author to object to a 'derogatory treatment' of his or her work. A treatment of a work is derogatory if it is 'prejudicial to the author's honour or...