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• The colonial bar 1841-1880
• Land boom and Federation 1880-1914
• War and depression 1914-1945
• The post-war boom and after 1945-1980
• The modern bar 1980-2020

In 1841 in Port Phillip's new Supreme Court a young Redmond Barry argued that the evidence against two Tasmanian Aboriginals accused of murder was quite insufficient for conviction-to no avail. In January 1842 the first execution took place in front of 3000 spectators. Four decades later, the eminent Redmond was to sentence Ned Kelly to death. In 1855 the 13 Eureka rebels were tried for High Treason-a hanging offence. The jury wasn't having it. These were just three of many dramatic incidents in our early history, and countless others have since played out in our courts, under a system of justice in which barristers are the contestants. The author describes the Victorian Bar as a collective of individuals. The reader will find many great figures of the Law and of Politics-and a vanguard of activists who have pressed for human rights and social progress. Peter Yule writes fine biographies and histories, and his recent The Long Shadow: Australia's Vietnam Veterans Since the War has been widely acclaimed.
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• Introduction.- Judicial Control of Court Administration.- Models of Court Governance.- The Court Governance Policy Framework.- Court Services Victoria.- Conclusion.
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This book is a comparative study of judge-managed court systems across Australia, Europe and North America. This book makes an original contribution to the literature of court administration by providing a framework for examining court-service models of judicial councils, the policymaking bodies of courts and tribunals. This book promises to assist court administration scholars, judicial leaders, and policymakers in devising more effective organizational solutions to the contemporary challenges of judicial self-governance. The author Dr. Tim Bunjevac offers a nuanced elaboration of judicial accountability in court administration and a model institutional framework of court governance, comparing key Australian and international models of court administration, including the Australian Federal and two state court systems, Irish, English, Canadian and Dutch models. With a close case study, the author puts his sharpest focus on the Victoria, Australia, which introduced a judicial council in 2014. This book does an innovative job of proposing a new elaboration of judicial accountability in court administration. This book proposes that the likely success of any court system reform ultimately depends on the quality of the interaction between the courts, government, and other justice system stakeholders, which must be rooted in the concepts of organizational transparency and administrative accountability.
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• The coming of the resident judges / Janine Rizzetti
• 'A pile of buildings' built to last / Susan Reynolds
• A glimpse at the frontline and the unsung heroes of the Court / Jane Mayo Carolan
• The shaping of the legal profession / Simon Smith
• The judges and their Court 1852-1900 / John Waugh
• A bridging era 1900-1949 / Susan Priestley
• The making of the modern Supreme Court 1974-2015 / Charles Parkinson
• All very civil / Mark Finnane
• The Court on the move / Don Garden
• Capital crimes and the Supreme Court / Kathy Laster
• Forensic medicine and the Supreme Court / Stephen Cordner and Fiona Leahy
• Journalism and the Supreme Court / Peter Gregory
• Conclusion / Andrew Lemon
• Appendix: Judicial officers of the Supreme Court of Victoria to 1 January 2016.

• Introduction: Homicide law reform in Victoria : retrospect and prospects / Kate Fitz-Gibbon and Arie Freiberg
• The more things change the more they stay the same : homicide law reform in Victoria / Marcia Neave
• Legal culture, professional education and homicide law reform / Felicity Hampel
• Law reform and the media : (re)figuring responsibility / Jenny Morgan
• Homicide law reform, provocation and sentencing / Arie Freiberg, Karen Gleb and Felicity Stewart
• The effects of the 2005 reforms on legal responses to women who kill intimate partners / Danielle Tyson, Debbie Kirkwood, Mandy McKenzie and Bronwyn Naylor
• Social framework evidence : its interpretation and application in Victoria and beyond / Heather Douglas
• When self-defence fails / Elizabeth Sheehy, Julie Stubbs and Julia Tolmie
• The offence of defensive homicide : lessons learned from failed law reform / Kate Fitz-Gibbon
• Simplifying homicide laws for complex situations / Greg Byrne
• Reform and codification of the law of homicide : reflections on the Victorian experience / Ian Leader-Elliott

2015 marks a decade since the release of the Victorian Law Reform Commission's Defences to Homicide: Final Report. The Commission's Final Report recommended major changes to the law of homicide in Victoria and in 2005, the Victorian government responded to the 56 recommendations by implementing the largest package of homicide law reforms since the abolition of the death penalty. This book brings together leading scholars, legal practitioners and the former Victorian Attorney-General to provide a comprehensive examination of the Victorian experience of reform, including its perceived successes and failures. This is a controversial area of the law that continues to present challenges in practice. Since the 2005 reforms further reform of the law has occurred in Victoria and a range of divergent approaches to homicide law reform have been introduced and animated debate across Australia and internationally. With such a high level of law reform activity nationally this book provides a timely analysis of the extent to which the Victorian reforms have improved legal responses to lethal violence and with what effect in practice. To enhance this analysis the book also looks internationally to consider the operation of homicide law in England and Wales, Canada and New Zealand and what lessons could be gained from an Australian perspective from differing approaches to reform. This book explores a number of issues concerning the operation of the law of homicide, sentencing practices, the role of the media, evidence reforms, legal culture, political influences and future reform challenges for Victoria and other Australian jurisdictions. In examining all aspects of the 2005 homicide law reforms, the book draws on the views of those who were involved in reviewing the law of homicide in Victoria, those who recommended and implemented reform, and those who have played a key role in the monitoring and evaluation of the law post-reform in Victoria but also more widely in Australia and internationally. The resulting analysis will be of great interest to law, criminology and socio-legal scholars as well as legal practitioners and law reformers in Australia and comparative international jurisdictions.
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• History, current law and change
• The direction of new laws
• Supported decision making
• Personal appointments
• VCAT appointments
• Statutory appointments
• Responsibility and accountability under the law
• Implementing and regulating new laws
• Interaction with other laws

• Introduction
• Functions of easements
• Express creation of easements
• Easements for utilities and services
• Recording and registration of easements
• Implied easements
• Prescriptive easements
• An integrated scheme for creation of easements
• Removal of easements
• The role of covenants
• Covenants and the register
• Positive covenants
• Freehold covenants : a new statutory scheme
• Changed conditions and lapsing of covenants
• Removal and variation of easements and covenants under planning legislation
• Removal and variation of easements and covenants by judicial order
• Questions.

• Introduction
• Purpose and characteristics of easements
• Express creation of easements
• Implied and prescriptive easements
• Regulatory easements
• Purpose and nature of covenants
• Easements and covenants under planning law
• Removal and variation of easements and covenants by order.

• The Commission's guardianship review
• Guardianship, administration and medical treatment
• Other relevant laws
• Changing community and new ideas
• Questions.

• The Commission's review of property laws
• Why review the Property Law Act?
• Legal estates in freehold land
• Trusts of land
• Obsolete rules
• Procedure for enlargement of long leases
• Capacity
• Formal requirements for creation and assignments of interests
• Applications to the court by vendor and purchaser
• Third party rights
• Execution of judgments
• Land identification, boundaries and encroachment
• Questions.

• Introduction
• A new property law act
• Contracts and covenants
• Land identification, boundaries and encroachment
• Reform of legal estates and trusts of land
• Amendments to outdated provisions
• Repeal of obsolete provisions
• Further review.

• Introduction
• Use of surveillance in public places
• Current law
• A balanced approach to regulation
• Promoting responsible use of surveillance in public places
• Modernising the Surveillance Devices Act
• Statutory causes of action.

• Introduction
• Current practices
• Privacy in public places
• Risks and benefits
• Current law
• Options for reform.

• Introduction
• Social context
• Regulation
• Access to treatment
• Eligibility for treatment
• Self-insemination
• Sex selection
• Gamete and embryo donation
• Posthumous use
• Adoption
• Legal parentage
• Recognising non-birth mothers
• Status of donors
• Birth registration
• Access to information
• Surrogacy
• Eligibility for surrogacy
• Surrogacy expenses
• Parentage and surrogacy

• Preface.
• 1. Bad, Mad and Dangerous to Know.
• 2. 'A Macabre Dance to his Well-Known Tune': The Pathway of Resistance.
• 3. A Flurry of Activity: The Political Reaction to a Dangerous Person.
• 4. Bad or Mad? The Credibility of Psychiatry.
• 5. A Malleable Boundary and the Bridging Manoeuvres.
• 6. The Supreme Court: David versus Goliath.
• 7. The Social Audience and a Master Puppeteer: Representations, Images and the Media.
• 8. The Prism of Dangerousness. References. Index.
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This book looks at what happened when the government of Victoria, Australia, enacted special legislation to detain one person with a severe antisocial personality disorder on the grounds of his presumed dangerousness, despite the fact that he did not fit within the ordinary criteria of mental illness or criminality. In doing so, it interfered with the law's protection of civil rights and also with professional distinctions between a certifiable mental illness and the broader concept of mental disorder. The ensuing legal processes highlighted the ambiguous, contingent and negotiable nature of the boundary between badness and madness. The issues raised by this case transcend a government's singular action, highlighting matters such as the duty of care in a forensic setting; diagnostic uncertainties; debates about treatment; the responsibility of politicians to protect the community; and the difficulties inherent in translating clinical concepts into an acceptable legal format. Neither Bad Nor Mad analyses the interaction between psychiatry and the law in an absorbing account of one case with extensive ramifications.
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