Before the High Court

The Sydney Law Review's Before the High Court service provides a forum for some of Australia's leading academics to comment upon cases that are currently awaiting hearing by the High Court of Australia.

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Volume 28 Number 2     
(June) 2006
'Litigation Lending' after Fostif: An Advance in Consumer Protection, or a Licence to 'Bottomfeeders' by Lee Aitken
Volume 28 Number 1
(March) 2006
Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs v QAAH: Cessation of Refugee Status by Maria O'Sullivan
Volume 27 Number 1
(March) 2005
Ruddoch and Others v Taylor
by Susan Kneebone
Volume 26 Number 4 (September) 2004 On Technology Locks and the Proper Scope of Digital Copyright Laws - Sony in the High Court
by Kim Weatherall
Volume 25 Number 3 (September) 2003

Politics, Police and Proportionality - An Opportunity to Explore the Lange Test: Coleman v Power
by Elisa Arcioni 

 

The Panel Case and Television Broadcast Copyright
by Michael Handler

Volume 25 Number 2 (September 2003)

Redundancy and Interpretation in Industrial Agreements: The Amcor Case

by Andrew Frazier

Volume 25 Number 1 (March 2003) Applicants S396/2002 and S395/2002: a gay refugee couple from Bangladesh
by Catherine Dauvergne and Jenni Millbank
Volume 24 Number 4 (December 2002)

Sport and the Law: The South Sydney Appeal
by Saul Fridman

Volume 24 Number 2

Australian Competition and Consumer Commision v The Daniels Corporation International Pty Ltd and Another

by Suzanne B McNicol

 

The Message, Not the Medium: Defamation, Publication and the Internet in Dow Jones & Co Inc v Gutnick

by David Rolph

Volume 24 Number 1

The Case of the Improbable Murderer: De Grunchy v R

by Jeremy Gans

Volume 23 Number 4 (December 2001)

Tame v Morgan and Annetts v Australian Stations Pty Ltd

by Peter Handford

Volume 22 Number 3 (September 2000)

Immunities Under Attack: The Tort Liability of Highway Authorities and their Immunity from Liability for on-Feasance: Brodie v Singleton Shire Council, Ghantous v Hawkesbury City Council

by Barbara McDonald

Volume 21 Number 4 (December 1999)

Esso Australia Resources Ltd v Federal Commisioner of Taxation

by Suzanne B McNicol

Volume 21 Number 2 (June 1999)

Campomar Sociedad Limitada & Anor v Nike International Ltd & Anor

by Eileen Webb and Diana Farrelly

Volume 20 Number 4 (December 1998)

HG v The Queen

by Eilis S Magner

-See decision on AustLII

Volume 20 Number 3 (September 1998)

Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs v Eshetu by Mary Crock and Mark Gibian

- See decision on AustLII

Volume 20 Number 2 (June 1998)

Copyright and Computer Programs: Data Access v Powerflex Before the High Court

by Ben Kremer

- See decision on AustLII

Volume 20 Number 1 (March 1998)

The Hindmarsh Island Bridge Act. Must Laws Based on the Race Power be for the "Benefit" of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders? And what has Bridge Building got to do with the Race Power Anyway?

by Nicholas Pengelley

- See decision on AustLII

Volume 19 Number 4 (December 1997)

"Why Would I be Lying?: The High Court in Palmer v R Confronts an Argument that may Benefit Sexual Assault Complainants
by Jeremy Gans

- See decision on AustLII

Volume 19 Number 2 (June 1997)

Labour Law and the Inherent Requirements of the Job: Qantas Airlines Ltd v Christie - Destination: the High Court of Australia - Boarding at Gate Seven

by Ronald C McCallum

 

Till Debt Us Do Part - A Note on National Australia Bank Ltd v Garcia

by Anthony J. Duggan

- See decision on AustLII

Volume 19 Number 1 (March 1997)

Dead Ducks and Endangered Political Communication - Levy v State of Victoria and Lange v Australian Broadcasting Corporation

by Anne Twomey

Volume 18 Number 3 (September 1996)

Music on Hold: The Case of Copyright and the Telephone. Telstra Corporation Ltd v Australasian Performing Rights Association Ltd

by Patricia Loughlan

 

"Unatural Rejection of Womanhood and Motherhood": Pregnancy, Damages and the Law. A Note on CES v Superclinics (Aust) Pty Ltd

by Reg Graycar and Jenny Morgan