Sydney Law School: Recent submissions
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Suicide-related materials and voluntary assisted dying
Published 2020This column discusses the potential for conflict between the Federal laws forbidding the use of telecommunications to spread "suicide-related materials" and the laws in Victoria and Western Australia which have legalised ...Open AccessArticle -
Brain death and pregnancy: on the legalities of post-mortem gestation
Published 2020This column examines a 2020 decision of the Supreme Court of the Australian Capital Territory, Millard v Australian Capital Territory [2020] ACTSC 138, which dealt with a dispute concerning a brain dead pregnant woman and ...Open AccessArticle -
The public interest test in immediate action hearings under the 'Health Practitioner Regulation National Law'
Published 2021This paper examines the public interest test and how it is employed in immediate action hearings under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law. It examines the history of the test in New South Wales and its eventual ...Open AccessArticle -
Unconventional practice, "innovative" interventions and the 'National Law'
Published 2020This column explores a recent health profession disciplinary case which throws light on the problems of unconventional interventions by medical practitioners under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009 ...Open AccessArticle -
Assessing rationing decisions through the principle of proportionality
Published 2021Rationing policies necessarily discriminate, as they must identify bases on which to discriminate between patients in order to prioritise. Treatments may provide a greater benefit to some people than others and this may ...Open AccessArticle