Federation Press - Newly Published Titles

Australian Coastal and Marine Law

This book provides a comprehensive outline of the international and legal framework and then presents the law in a number of individually themed chapters. In doing so the editors have drawn upon the expertise of scholars and practitioners in a range of specialist areas.

Australian Mental Health Tribunals

This monograph provides a comprehensive examination of mental health tribunal hearings in Australia. It deals with a wide and far-reaching landscape of theories and concepts and their practical application to the day-to-day operations of the tribunals in New South Wales, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory.

Australian Principles of Tort Law

Now in its third edition Australian Principles of Tort Law continues to provide currency, depth of analysis, and clear instruction as to how to approach this challenging area of law. This edition incorporates the latest materials and includes observations as to the scope and content of the growing body of legal interpretation of the tort law reform legislation across all jurisdictions, as courts throughout Australia interpret and apply the challenging legislative provisions.

Case Management and Complex Civil Litigation

Complexity in civil litigation is caused by a range of factors. This text seeks to identify the main causes of complexity and address each through specific case management approaches. A clearer conception of how a complex case may be resolved efficiently will assist in reducing the twin evils of excessive cost and delay. Similarly, the more efficient use of judicial time allows for other cases to be able to access the civil justice system.

Changing Policing Theories

This book first expounds the history and philosophy of policing, then discusses the practice of policing in Australia, Britain and America showing their different responses. It also examines in detail the way in which changes in society, in particular the prevalence of drugs, and the advent of communications technology have affected the nature of crime and police responses to it.

Climate Change and Australia

Climate change is one of the most hotly debated issues of this century. This book provides a clear, balanced account of the science on climate change, how it is affecting the planet and Australia, and the policy options available to Australia and the world to deal with it.

Constituting Law

Essays on the possibilites, application and limitations of principles that bear upon legal reasoning but not derive from legal premises.

Criminal Laws Northern Territory

This 2nd edition deals in detail with the sweeping changes introduced in 2005 by Part IIAA of the NT Criminal Code. These changes often mirror the Criminal Code (Cth), and have completely rewritten many of the NT Code’s most significant provisions, including the law of murder, rape, and many serious offences against the person.

Criminal Process and Human Rights

Criminal process requirements in Australia are being affected by obligations created by legislation in Victoria and the ACT and by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (the ICCPR) across the country. This book examines how. It is a rights-based analysis of Australian criminal procedure, a comprehensive guide to the actual and potential impact of human rights law upon Australian criminal process.

Criminal Trial

This book will introduce the professional witness to the courtroom practices, policies and procedures within the context of the criminal trial. It will have a direct and particular relevance to police officers and officers from the regulatory authorities.

Dewigged, Bothered and Bewildered

Throughout the British colonies in the nineteenth century, judges were expected not only to administer law and justice but also to play a significant role within the governance of their jurisdictions. British authorities were consequently concerned about judges’ loyalty to the Crown and on occasion removed or suspended those who were found politically subversive or personally difficult. Even reasonable and well-balanced judges were sometimes threatened with removal.

Environmental and Planning Law in New South Wales

The key changes in this edition concern planning and assessment, energy and climate law. The book continues to provide effective integration of planning and assessment provisions with environmental law topics such as pollution control, broadly defined; the protection of biodiversity and heritage; natural resource issues such as energy and water; global and domestic attempts to deal with climate change; and corporate social responsibility.

Evidence Based Policy and Practice in Youth Justice

Evidence Based Policy and Practice in Youth Justice is a significant collection that critiques the existing evidence base about the causes and prevention of youth offending in Australia and promotes the further development of this evidence base. It draws on Australian evidence wherever possible, highlighting international evidence where Australian evidence is not available or is conflicting

Homelessness and the Law

This book explores the many ways in which laws in Australia, at federal, State and Territory level, operate to cause or perpetuate homelessness, as well as how the law might be used to address the causes and consequences of homelessness.

Income Tax

This established text covering the major areas of taxaton has been fully revised to include the latest developments in taxation law. This 8th edition retains the strengths which have won it universal praise.

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property: Text and Essential Cases continues to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date legal analysis of the cases and legislation which comprise modern intellectual property law.

Islam

This book provides an introduction to Islamic law for western readers. It explains the origin and development of the Shariah (Islamic law). It contains updated chapters on the Islamic laws of War and Peace, including juristic opinions on the legality of suicide bombing and the use of modern weapons of mass destruction. It explains the commonalities and the differences in family laws, and the differences in Muslim opinion concerning the status of women. It contains a completely rewritten chapter on Islamic finance and rounds off with a look at Muslim communities in Australia and the way they live their lives.

Judge Advocate - Ellis Bent

Ellis Bent has a merchant’s eye for detail and these documents give us a remarkable insight into manners, customs and power play of land and sea in the early nineteenth century...

Land Contracts in Queensland

Land Contracts in Queensland provides a thorough, user-friendly account of the law relating to buying and selling freehold land in Queensland.
The authors analyse the substance of the transaction through the medium of standard contracts, and draw on a comprehensive range of court decisions relating to the area.

Law in Context

Law in Context critically examines the foundations of the Australian legal system and the various contexts within which the law operates and develops.

Lawyers in Australia

This book contextualises the role and responsibilities of lawyers in contemporary Australian society and discusses recent trends and issues. It asks - how are they inculcated into ‘legal culture’? what is their role in society? what is the ‘legal profession’ and its ethical and structural frameworks? and, in what way do legal institutions and practices affect the delivery of ‘access to justice’?

Managed Investment Schemes

Managed Investment Schemes examines the current status of the managed investment scheme taking into account the history and evolution of the scheme and the current law and regulation as well as examining possible future reforms. However this is done not only from a jurisprudential but also from a practical point of view and will therefore be helpful not only to the legal profession and law students but also to industry participants.

Ong on Equity

Ong on Equity is a substantial and sophisticated work from Professor Denis Ong, author of the acclaimed commentary: Trusts Law in Australia, now in its third edition. Ong on Equity analyses in detail relevant cases from all the Australian and from international jurisdictions and thoroughly reviews all aspects of judicial decision making.

Principles of International Commercial Contracts 2010

ISBN =9788885449199

Public and Environmental Health Law

Public and Environmental Health Law describes and critically analyses the role of law and legislation in key areas in the practice of public and environmental health including traditional environmental health issues, planning, pollution control, food safety, “lifestyle” issues such as obesity, communicable diseases and emergencies. It also covers emerging fields such as sustainability and risk based approaches to public and environmental health management.

Reluctant Democrat

Aristocrat by birth, autocrat by nature, and officer of the Royal Engineers by training, Sir William Denison became a Governor in Australia in the mid 19th century at a time of momentous change. This is his story ... written by one of Australia's most significant legal historians ...

Residential Tenancies Law and Practice

This guide incorporates the new Residential Tenancies Act 2010 which took effect in February 2011. It reviews the changes brought about in the 2010 Act and updates the case annotations.

Rest Assured

Rest Assured is a straightforward, plain language guide to something that will affect every one of us: the procedures that accompany death. Too often, the first time we find out about wills and funerals is when we are dealing with the death of a loved one. But whether we are dealing with such a death or arranging our own wills, we need clear and level-headed advice on what the issues and problems are.

Tomorrow's Federation

This book is a major work on federalism and intergovernmental relations in Australia. It moves beyond familiar discussions about reforming the federal system to address the practical means by which reform can be achieved. The book adopts a hard-headed approach to the question of how reform is being advanced and suggests ways in which it might be accomplished in the future.

Unsettling the Settler State

Advancing Indigenous affairs governance and developing improved Settler-Indigenous relations requires dialogue and exchange between Indigenous and Settler ways of organising social and political relationships. Unsettling the Setter State opens vibrant and promising pathways for rethinking governance and decolonising Australia in the 21st century.

Work and Employment Relations

With significant regulatory, social and economic change occurring in Australia and in other countries, a new agenda for employment relations is needed. The scholarly essays in this book deal with many of the employment relations issues arising from these developments and consider the policy implications arising from them.