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More duty to restrain drink drivers

November 13, 2009 – 6:32 am

I did a post at the beginning of the year on the liability of publicans to restrain drunk patrons from driving home. To recap briefly: a drunken patron (Mr Scott) died after his motorcycle crashed, and his wife sued the licensee for failing to restrain him. A majority of the Full Court of the Supreme [...]

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Defamation for dummies

April 1, 2009 – 6:43 pm

In light of the recent publication of photos purportedly showing a semi-naked Pauline Hanson, we thought it was time to learn a thing or two about the law of defamation. The law of defamation not only has ramifications for newspapers, but also for blogs.
Main Entry: de·fa·ma·tion
Pronunciation: “de-f&-’mA-sh&n
Function: noun
1 : communication to third parties of false [...]

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A tort of invasion of privacy for Australia?

March 17, 2009 – 11:48 pm

I only started properly paying attention to the ‘Pauline Hanson pictures’ scandal after reading Iain Hall’s post on whether or not the pictures do actually depict Hanson. I should add that I’m linking to Iain’s post in large part because he’s been careful to crop the image and do a proper analysis ‘for the purposes [...]

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