Sydney Law School: Recent submissions
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Property in recyclable artificial implants
Published 2013This article discusses property rights in recyclable artificial implants such as pacemakers. These implants can remain useful and valuable after the death of the first user, but it is not clear who owns the devices when ...Open AccessArticle -
Appeals against conviction on indictment: Process, outcome and NSW reform after Kalbasi v Western Australia
Published 2019The High Court's recent decision in Kalbasi v Western Australia (Kalbasi) should present no obstacle to the adoption of the New South Wales Law Reform Commission's proposed reform to the "common form" conviction appeal ...Open AccessArticle -
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