Certain kinds of breach of confidence may be characterised as torts, at least for the purposes
of Australian private international law, in respect of rules ofjurisdiction and choice of law …

The power to adjudicate is of central importance within the constitutional order of any legal
system. It is through the exercise of that power that questions concerning the life, liberty …

The law of privacy has been developing with extraordinary speed since the turn of the
present century, in response to equally rapid developments in technology and social …

As globalisation continues, so does the growth of cross-border litigation in Australia. The
body of principles relevant to cross-border litigation is thus increasingly important to the …

In early 2011, officers of the Legal Aid Commission of Western Australia stumbled across the
case of Gregory John Yates. Mr Yates was an intellectually disabled man convicted of …

The aim of this chapter is to explore the issues that arise when a privacy infringement action
crosses international boundaries and cannot simply be subjected to the jurisdiction and law …