Commentary

Tony Lee's retirement from Ford & Lee: The Law of Trusts draws a line under a career that encompasses more than 50 years of writing on trusts and succession law, and making major contributions to law reform, writes his long-time co-editor Emeritus Professor Michael Bryan.

A report into whether Victoria’s Supreme Court should continue to use the Scale of Costs in fixing party/party litigious costs has rejected the concept of retaining or revising it.

Sam Ricketson covers highlights from the latest release of the Law of Intellectual Property: Copyright, Design and Confidential Information service: Review of chapter on Public Access to Protected Material: Free Use Exceptions completed; responsibility for copyright following the...

The October Patent Law in Australia online service release covers discussions of the following notable cases: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd v Commissioner of Patents (2022) 96 ALJR 837; [2022] HCA 29 and Re GloFish, LLC [2002] APO 52

Australian Intellectual Property Journal update: Vol 33 Pt 1

In AIPJ 33.1, David J Brennan discusses the assignment in Deed form from its author Harold Thomas to the Commonwealth of all copyright in the Australian Aboriginal Flag artistic work and raises the question whether the Australian copyright in the work entered the Australian public...

A review of the evolution of the doctrine of judicial notice in the context of litigation arising in relation to COVID-19. An exploration of the ramifications for solicitors’ practice of the decision of McElwaine J in New Aim Pty Ltd v Leung [2022] FCA 722.