Australia introduced its first espionage offence in 1914. This was repealed in 2002 andreplaced with four new offences. Just 16 years later, these offences have again been thesubject of legislative change; in June 2018, they were repealed and…
Class actions are legal proceedings brought on behalf of numerous persons, known asgroup members. When a class action settles for a monetary payment to compensatethe group members, the payment needs to be divided among the group members. Thedivision…
This article focuses on the interests of older Australians during the COVID-19 pandemic. It analyses the implications of the pandemic for older Australians from a human rights perspective, recognising the need to understand ageing as a process that…
The Australian live animal export trade has long been under scrutiny due to repeated public outcries over the animal welfare abuses that are seemingly intrinsic to the trade. This article examines the regulatory regimes of Australia’s international…
To realise that there is no Court in Australia with unlimited jurisdiction is at one stroke to recognise the continuing importance of Justice Leeming’s standard work, and the relevance of this second edition. The ‘autochthonous expedient’, as Sir…
The creation of Europe’s Digital Single Market requires interoperable multilingual resources in the Linguistic Linked Open Data (LLOD) cloud. The PMKI project aims to create a public multilingual knowledge management infrastructure, able to establish…
The rights of persons with disabilities have been strengthened in the past years. The impulse came from the passing of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and its adoption in many parts of the world. In Germany, its…
Courts are increasingly called upon to adjudicate hard cases involving questions of social facts. In deciding these matters, in a just and efficient manner according to law, courts will desirably have recourse to social science material and, perhaps…
