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The Surveillance Devices Act 2007 (NSW) (“the Act”) [1] is a piece of privacy legislation enacted by the Parliament of New South Wales the most populous state in Australia. It replaced the Listening Devices Act 1984 (NSW). [2] The Act makes it an offence to record private conversations apart from in specific and defined circumstances.
The NSWLR began in 1970, following the establishment of the Council of Law Reporting by the Council of Law Reporting Act 1969. They replaced the State Reports, New South Wales (which began in 1901) as the authorised reports in New South Wales. [4] The current Editor of the NSWLR is Perry Herzfeld SC who has held the position since 2022.
[1] [2] The Law Society has statutory powers and regulates the practice of law in New South Wales. [3] The Law Society of NSW encourages debate and actively drives law reform issues through policy submissions [4] and open dialogue with governments, parliamentary bodies, the courts and the New South Wales Department of Justice. It ensures the ...
The Ethics Centre was launched in 1989 by The Anglican Parish of St James' Church, Sydney in order to work with business in the city to promote ethics and ethical decision-making. In 1996, St James Ethics Centre became entirely independent from the church. It is now a secular organisation, open to those of any or no faith.
The High Court's decision was handed down on 10 August 2022, [1] with its reasons published the same day. [6] In the judgment summary, the Court stated that they held: [1] that ss 11 and 12 of the SD Act did not impermissibly burden the implied freedom in their application to, respectively, the communication or publication by a person of a record or report, or the possession by a person of a ...
Federated Amalgamated Government Railway & Tramway Service Association v NSW Rail Traffic Employees Association, known as the Railway Servants Case, [1] is an early High Court of Australia case that held that employees of State railways could not be part of an interstate industrial dispute under the conciliation and arbitration power, [2] applying the doctrine of "implied inter-governmental ...
Kitto J continued to state that to ascertain the true character of the law, we examine what it does "in the way of changing or creating or destroying duties or rights or powers". [6] Furthermore, Barwick CJ reiterated the rejection of the reserved State powers doctrine (see Amalgamated Society of Engineers v Adelaide Steamship Co Ltd [7]). In ...
Another was a decision of Justice Gillard of the Supreme Court of Victoria in Giller v Procopets, in which the Court held the law had 'not developed to the point where the law in Australia recognises an action for breach of privacy' [18] Both cases were settled out of court and, as a result, did not proceed to appeal; and so have no value as ...