Sydney Law School: Recent submissions
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Tribunals and administrative policies: Does the high or low policy distinction help?
Published 2009The Australian administrative law literature identifies a number of factors for allocating weight to administrative policies by merits review tribunals. The primary consideration is the distinction between high policies, ...Open AccessArticle -
The duality of jurisdictional error: Central (to justifying entrenched judicial review of executive action) and pivotal (to review doctrine)
Published 2021Jurisdictional error has a prominent role in entrenched review of executive action in Australia, despite near universal acknowledgment that it does not illuminate the operative norms of administrative law. A statutory ...Open AccessArticle -
The regulatory pyramid meets the food pyramid: Can regulatory theory improve controls on television food advertising to Australian children?
Published 2011This article examines whether responsive regulation has potential to improve the regulatory framework which controls free-to-air television advertising to children, so that the regulatory scheme can be used more effectively ...Open AccessArticle -
Propensity evidence reform after the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse
Published 2018The Royal Commission considers the exclusion of propensity evidence, including prior convictions and the evidence of other alleged victims, to be one of the most significant obstacles to child sex offence (CSO) prosecutions. ...Open AccessArticle -
The use of human tissue samples in medical research: Legal issues for human research ethics committees
Published 2000This article provides a framework for considering some of the legal issues that arise from the use of human tissue samples in medical research, particularly when human research ethics committees (HRECs) scrutinise research ...Open AccessArticle