Articles tagged as Australian Law
This selection of academic papers covers the legal system of Australia and contains, essays, dissertations and case summaries which may be of interest to Australian law students or those studying Australian laws from outside Australia.

Latest Law Papers tagged as Australian Law
Including law essays, dissertations, problem questions, case summaries, and law lectures, suitable for law students working towards their LLB / LLM qualifications or those studying for the new SQE.
Commercial Bank of Australia v Amadio
Contract Law
Abstract: The ever expanding consumer population has found ways of redress according to legislation and general law in Australia. This was ......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
There Are No Qualifications for Being a Company Director
Company Law
ESSAY TITLE: ‘There are no qualifications for being a company director. Even directors of listed companies do not have to take any examinations. ......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
Courts Role and Environmental Rights
Environmental Law
The environment is the resource base for all life and is the basis on which many of our fundamental rights depend (EDO NSW and EDO Victoria, 2009), as humans we have the right to live in a clean and healthy environment, with clean water and unpolluted air....
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
Context of Contract Law Is a Common Law Defence
Contract Law
Duress in the context of contract law is a common law defence, and if one is successful in proving that the contract is vitiated by duress......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
What is Restraint of Trade?
Contract Law
Introduction Restraint of trade refers to the contract ties the trading activities of either party after its determination . Restraint of trade cla......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
The Need for a Lex Arbitri
Commercial Law
Arbitration refers to the settlement of a dispute between two or more persons after hearing the parties in a quasi-judicial manner by persons ......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
Parol Evidence States Contracts Are Merely in Writing
Contract Law
The Parol Evidence Rule states that a contract is merely in writing only, with the assumption of all the terms and conditions related being enclosed in it. Hence......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
Cases Concerning Members Rights
Business Law
If a person plans to generate money by being able to establish a business which is anticipated to fulfill such goals, there are many available choices such ......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
The Legal Rules of Offer and Acceptance
Contract Law
With reference to the legal rules relating to offer and acceptance of a contract, advise the club whether it can claim the joining fee....
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
Under Age Gambling
Criminal Law
Mr Ian Gamble who is fifteen years of age has been summonsed to appear at the Local Court for an offence against the Gambling Act. Mr Gamble was ......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
How Federalism isn't Working in Australia
Constitutional Law
“Professor Brian Galligan has noted (in A Federal Republic: Australia’s Constitutional Governmental (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
Main Characteristics of Constitutional Conventions
Administrative Law
Many rules are followed by political institutions in countries using the Westminster system of government that are neither codified ......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
Comparative Company Law Major Report on Mayalsia
Business Law
This report will be highlighting the Malaysian Company Law rules and procedures and also comparing them to the ones enforced in Australia today. Malaysian Company Law on the surface is similar to that of ......
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
Australia is a Dualist Country
Australian Law
Australia is a dualist country – its domestic law does not automatically incorporate public international law. However, international law is influential in many ways on Australian domestic law....
Last modified: 6th Aug 2019
The Business Judgement Rule
Business Law
INTRODUCTION- The collapses world over shook the trust and reliability of stock holders on the director’s. Obviously leading to the ......
Last modified: 2nd Aug 2019
Setting Up a Valid Contract
Business Law
The main components or an activity in business is contract....
Last modified: 2nd Aug 2019
Reforms of the Patents Act
Administrative Law
Discuss the validity of patents involving isolated genes and gene sequences with reference to s18 of the Patents Act 1990 (Cth). What, if ......
Last modified: 2nd Aug 2019
Should Australia Have A Bill Of Rights?
Administrative Law
The question of whether or not Australia should have a bill or charter of rights is both a highly controversial and heatedly debatable topic ......
Last modified: 2nd Aug 2019
Recent Reforms Affecting Australia Airlines
Australian Law
The airline industries in Australia have changed rapidly over the past few decades. Since the end of the 1980s many reforms have affected the industry, transforming it from the......
Last modified: 2nd Aug 2019
Giving Shareholders More Power
Business Law
Do you think it is necessary to amend the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) to give shareholders more power? The recent issue regarding the allocation ......
Last modified: 2nd Aug 2019
Case Analysis About the Corporations Act 2001
Business Law
The Corporations Act 2001 (Cth), that is the Corporations Act (the Act), is an act of the Commonwealth of Australia which provides rules relating ......
Last modified: 2nd Aug 2019
The Democratic Policing in Action
Administrative Law
Democratic Police Forces are not supposed to be narrow-minded, self contained or disconnected from which the power originates. Openness ......
Last modified: 2nd Aug 2019
Schemes v Takeover Bids
Business Law
It has been identified in numerous papers that schemes of arrangements has become one of the main devices for achieving corporate control ......
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
Are Multi-Disciplinary Practices Cause for Concern or Celebration?
Judicial Law
Ancient Judiciary and even society is well acquainted with the term Lawyer...
Last modified: 23rd Jul 2019
A Comparison of Australian and French Intestacy Law
Land Law
I Introduction This essay will examine the rights of the surviving spouse in intestate succession in the French Civil Law system and the Australian......
Last modified: 22nd Jul 2019