In Donoghue v Stevenson,1 the House of Lords established negligence as an independent tort and reformulated the responsibility owed by one person to another in civil society. The accident of Mabel Hannah finding a snail ...

This article considers the potential of tort law to foster greater corporate compliance with international human rights norms.The extraterritorial use of tort to challenge multinational corporations (MNCs) is a strategy ...

Picture two images, both of a native title claim area. The first is a map of the claim area, demarcated by latitude and longitude. The areas that cannot be claimed are marked with hatching. There are Crown reservation ...

This book is a comprehensive guide to Australian coastal and marine law. Since the landmark enactment of the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 (Cth), and the subsequent High Court decision in NSW v Commonwealth, there have ...

The concept of "serious disability" appears to play a significant role in circumscribing treatment-limiting decisions in neonatal care, prenatal counselling, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and abortion following prenatal ...

Professor Hitchens, writing from Australia, sees a dramatically different regulatory framework in a post-convergence ¿Broadband Age.¿ Future media policy and regulation, she says, will have to address the entire ¿media ...