Sydney Law School: Recent submissions
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Data registers in respiratory medicine: A pilot project evaluating compliance with privacy laws and the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Research Involving Humans
Published 2002This article reports on data from a small pilot survey evaluating the compliance of voluntary databases in respiratory medicine with privacy laws and the National Health and Medical Research Council's National Statement ...Open AccessArticle -
Myths, misconceptions and mixed messages: An early look at the new tendency and coincidence evidence provisions
Published 2021Following the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse, Uniform Evidence Law jurisdictions are implementing reforms to the tendency and coincidence evidence provisions. These reforms aim to relax the exclusionary rules so ...Open AccessArticle -
The case for principled and practical propensity evidence reform
Published 2020In September 2017 the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse identified the exclusion of propensity evidence as "one of the most significant [criminal justice] issues". To gain admission propensity evidence must satisfy ...Open AccessArticle -
Knowing receipt, knowing assistance, and Torrens land
Published 2022In Turner v O'Bryan-Turner, Wendy O'Bryan-Turner held a power of attorney in respect of her husband, John Turner, who had lost capacity. In purported exercise of that power, Wendy caused several parcels of land in John's ...Open AccessArticle -
Freedom of Speech and Defamation Law
Published 2022Defamation law seeks to strike a balance between the protection of reputation and freedom of speech. How that balance is struck may need to be varied and nuanced to take into account the different types of speech and the ...Open AccessArticle