It has been a decade since the Disorderly Houses Amendment Act 1995 (NSW) was passed, which abolished the common law offence of keeping a brothel. Under this legislation, councils were to regulate brothels using ...

The implied promise of liberal democracies in a state of pluralism is that difference will be addressed. This article argues that this promise has not been met in the case of GM regulation, despite 30 years of discussion ...

The Global Financial Crisis has shone a bright light on the efficacy and scope of Australia¿s corporate and financial regulatory system. The past year has seen several significant changes introduced, many of which have ...

Policy objectives at the Commonwealth level call for unified and uniform disclosure as part of the law applying to managed investment schemes. Serviced strata schemes are a type of managed investment scheme and are therefore ...

Vivian Tang was excluded from her doctoral program at Griffith University on the basis of academic misconduct. Her academic dreams in that or in any other university were thus effectively curtailed as were her prospects ...

This article examines the law of psychiatric illness in the light of Ronald Dworkin's and Stanley Fish's legal theory. The article proposes to examine the attitude of judges to judicial law making in England and Australia, ...