http://hdl.handle.net/10453/294 2013-05-23T15:15:56Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19022 The proposed licensing of brothels in New South Wales Crofts Penelope The New South Wales Coalition government is proposing to introduce a licensing system for brothels in accordance with pre-election commitments. This article argues that there is no evidence that brothels are criminogenic or inherently corrupting, nor any evidence that a Brothel Licensing Authority would effectively reduce and/or prevent crime and corruption. It considers the current New South Wales planning-based model and compares this with the Queensland and Victorian licensing models. There are other regulatory concerns associated with the sex industry, such as amenity impacts and health and safety concerns; it is argued here that these are regulated effectively under the current planning regime. A licensing authority is unlikely to improve the regulation of brothels in New South Wales in terms of illegality, amenity, and health and safety, 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19023 Neighbourly Injuries: Proximity in Tort Law and Virginia Woolf's Theory of Suffering Van Rijswijk Honni 2012 marks the 80th anniversary of Donoghue v Stevenson, a case that is frequently cited as the starting-point for a genealogy of negligence. This genealogy starts with the figure of the neighbour, from which, as Jane Stapleton eloquently describes, a "golden thread" of vulnerability runs into the present (Stapleton 2004, 135). This essay examines the harms made visible and invisible through the neighbour figure, and compares the law's framework to Virginia Woolf's subtle re-imagining and theorisation of responsibility in her novel Mrs. Dalloway (1925). I argue that Woolf critiques and supplements the law's representations of suffering. Woolf was interested in interpreting harms using a framework of neighbourly responsibility, but was also critical of the kinds of proximities recognised by society. Woolf made new harms visible within a framework of proximity: in this way, we might think of Woolf's work as theorizing a feminist aesthetic of justice, and as providing an alternate genealogy of responsibility to Donoghue v Stevenson. 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19010 Cutting the Gordian Knot of corporate law: Revisiting veil piercing in corporate groups Harris Jason; Hargovan Anil Veil piercing within corporate groups is an area of corporate law that continues to confound and confuse. Many consider it an area full of 'hard cases making bad law' to such an extent that it simply defies principled analysis. This article undertakes an investigation of the principled roots of veil piercing within corporate groups and challenges the perceived utility of an agency analysis. The authors argue that the purported agency principles used in veil piercing cases are in reality something different from legal principles of agency. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10453/19009 Tortious Remedies for Deliberate Wrongdoing to Victims of Human Trafficking and Slavery in Australia Stewart Pamela 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z