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Spencer, Pauline Review(s) of: Judges, Judging and Humour, by Jessica Milner Davis and Sharyn Roach Anleu (eds), Palgrave MacMillan, 2018, 335 pages, e118,99 (eBook). Article source: https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=910897137279290;res=IELHSS

Barnett, Katy This article discusses whether the demand that law academics show citations by a superior court is disadvantageous to women, using the citations of academic work by the High Court of Australia from 2015, 2016 and 2017. The preliminary data show that male academics were cited much more often than female academics (even for…

Serry, Bradley Review(s) of: Radical Heart: Three stories make us one, by Shireen Morris, Melbourne University Publishing, 2018, 246 pages, $27.99 (paperback). Article source: https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=910934403221807;res=IELHSS

Vijeyarasa, Ramona This article is premised on the fact that every area of law needs a gender perspective. It discusses the prospects for a Gender Legislative Index, a tool to enable us to evaluate and score legislation, by placing laws on a scale from genderregressive to gender-responsive, when set against global benchmarks from international law…

Grossi, Renata The 2017 High Court case of ‘Thorne v Kennedy’ highlighted and sparked discussion around the injustice of financial agreements and when they may constitute unconscionability and undue influence. However, the case also raises another important discussion about the relationship between love and money. This article picks up this conversation. How does society navigate…

Goldsworthy, Daniel The article proposes that deep-learning technologies have the capacity to produce artificial super-intelligence, which makes possible one of Dworkin’s most controversial and tantalising theories: that there is in fact one right answer to any legal question. Article source: https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=910543110825384;res=IELHSS

McLean, Jessica; Mackenzie, Rohan Automation and privatisation of the Australian visa processing system may produce digital injustices. As of late 2018, the federal government is pursuing automation and privatisation of visa processing to increase revenue, but this move will cut at least 3000 jobs and, given other experiences in automation and privatisation processes pursued by…

George, Allen The capability to remove homosexual offences from a criminal record has finally been adopted across Australia with the introduction of expungement legislation. This article analyses the reasons for its introduction, considers the number of people affected and suggests that a pardon, similar to the Turing Law in the UK, may address the low…

Catchwords: Review and Regulation – Health Practitioner Regulation National Law – podiatrist – allegations of professional misconduct – failing to maintain professional boundaries – sexual relationship with patient and asking patient to do work for him – charging the Department of Veterans’ Affairs for services he did not perform – inadequate clinical notes. Article source:…

Catchwords: Administrative and disciplinary – Health practitioner – Complaint by Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia– Illicit drug use – Sale and distribution of illicit drugs – Respondent admitted professional misconduct – Failure to notify Board of convictions and charges – Orders imposing sanctions Administrative and disciplinary – Health practitioner Significant departure from approved standards…