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This book focuses on the determinations of rents upon reviews or renewals of leases of commercial and retail properties. This book refers to the relevant valuation and legal principles and contains extensive reference to case law, including the facts of each case, lease provisions, counsels argument, and relevant excerpts from the judgments. The book explains: the history, purpose, and operation of rent review clauses, the basis of assessment,...

The Black Grapevine tells the extraordinary story of Indigenous efforts to stop children from becoming part of the "stolen generations" and to end the government policies and practices which destroyed their families. Linda Briskman uses the story of the Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Island Child Care (SNAICC) to centre her book. Indigenous people tell how they came together to form a national organisation for child care, provided supp...

Australian Maritime Law fills the need for an up-to-date, Australian general text that covers the major distinct areas of maritime law. The second edition will be a valuable acquisition for students of maritime law, practitioners, and all those in the maritime industry whose duties or activities include an involvement with maritime law.

This book takes a new approach to statutory interpretation. The authors consider the fundamental importance of context in statutory interpretation across various fields of regulation. They explore the problems which arise from the frequent disjunction between regulatory design and subsequent statutory interpretation. The book is divided into two parts. The first covers several areas dealing with fundamental theoretical issues. The second deals...

This book examines the jurisdiction of the High Court, federal courts, Territorial courts, and the federal jurisdiction of State courts. It is an area of law that has been described as technical, complicated, difficult, and, not infrequently, absurd. It is, however, the direct result of the federal jurisdiction of judicial power made by the Australian Constitution and it is of great practical importance. Much of the difficulty and some of absu...

Reshaping Juvenile Justice examines reforms in New South Wales under the Young Offenders Act 1997. The Act institutionalises a fresh approach to juvenile justice--one which relegates the use of courts to the last resort. The Act is unique in its focus on community, victim and family participation, the limits it places on the exercise of police discretion, and the provisions made for childrens access to legal advice. The reform was implemented ...

This book brings together the major Australian and New Zealand theorists in Critical Criminology. The chapters represent the contribution of these authors in both their established work and their recent scholarship. It includes new approaches to theory, methodology, case studies and contemporary issues.

This book explores contemporary strategies which might reduce the extraordinary levels of imprisonment and victimisation suffered by Aboriginal people in Australia. These are problems that continue to rise despite numerous inquiries and reports.

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Based on a detailed study of Australia's earliest civil court records - a million handwritten words about daily life and trade, this book covers the turbulent years in the penal colony. It shows the egalitarianism of life in the colony, even for serving convicts and married women.

Offers an assessment of the legislation, cases and policies that impact on public health practice in Australia and New Zealand. This book discusses laws in a range of important areas including environmental health, food safety, communicable disease, obesity, tobacco and alcohol, the human health impacts of pollution control and planning law.

Uniform Evidence Law is an essential tool and will enhance the understanding of the practical operation of evidence law in the various litigation contexts in which it arises.

Defend Yourself is designed for those who wish to defend a charge in court. It is particularly for those who want to represent themselves, but also for those represented by a lawyer who want to better understand the criminal process. It is a signpost guide, which alerts to first principles, then encourages research. This new second edition has been fully revised and the scope of the content has also been widened beyond NSW. The previous editio...

This book addresses the challenge of providing good social care to the more than 6 million people who live in rural Australia, some in very remote locations. It emphasises the importance of a developmental approach which stresses proper planning, evidence-based policy, and the influence which practitioners can have. The first part of the book explains the processes for developing, implementing, and evaluating policies and social plans, includi...

Completely revised and updated to take into account significant developments in Australian tort law, the fourth edition of this established casebook illuminates the principles of contemporary tort law and presents the underlying trends in the development of the law. A significant new feature of this edition is the inclusion of headnotes that summarise the essential principles for which the extracted case is authority. Fifteen new cases have be...