Sydney Law School: Recent submissions
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Acceptance of benefit as a basis for restitution
Published 2002In the late 1980s, after the publication of Professor Birks’s Introduction to the Law of Restitution, the role of acceptance as a basis for restitution in relation to non-monetary benefits was hotly debated. In recent years ...Open AccessArticle -
The assignment of guarantees: A review of Hutchens v Deauville Investments Pty Ltd
Published 2011In Hutchens v Deauville Investments Pty Ltd, the High Court of Australia held that the assignee of the benefit of a guarantee could not enforce that guarantee when title to the underlying credit contract remained with the ...Open AccessArticle -
Assignment of contractual rights: The apparent reformulation of the personal rights rule
Published 2007It is a fundamental rule of assignment that personal contractual rights cannot be assigned. It is also well settled that whether or not a right is personal is an issue of construction. However, there is a view that greater ...Open AccessArticle -
The Future of Criminal Law
Published 2024-08-26Welcome to the future of criminal law. But what does the future of the criminal law look like? Given the fracturing that has occurred across the criminal law field – from orthodox offences and defences to novel constructions ...Open AccessConference paper -
A time to value: Proposal for a national paid maternity leave scheme
Published 2003The Sex Discrimination Unit of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) issued "A Time to Value: Proposals for a National Paid Maternity Leave Scheme" in December 2002 - the report put forward a comprehensive ...Open AccessArticle