ON 29 AUGUST 2014, the NSW Government made the Anti-Discrimination Regulation 2014. The regulation among other things amends the Anti-Discrimination Regulation 2009 to allow registered clubs to lawfully provide to a member a concession (such as reduced membership fees), by reason of their age.
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The NSW Attorney General has announced the appointment of Crown Prosecutor Julia Baly SC as a judge of the District Court of NSW.
Ms Baly holds a Bachelor of Laws, Masters of Public International Law and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney. She was admitted as a solicitor in 1987 and a barrister in 1995.
Ms Baly commenced her legal career at the Aboriginal Legal Service and was an instructing solicitor in the 1988 Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. In the 1990s she acted as a criminal defence counsel in Sydney as well as taking on international criminal trials in Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Liberia and Cambodia.
Since 2002, Ms Baly has been a Crown Prosecutor with the NSW Director of Public Prosecutions and in recent times, based in Lismore, has been the Deputy Senior Crown Prosecutor for the whole of country NSW.
Ms Baly will be sworn in as District Court Judge on 1 September 2014.
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The NSW Attorney General has announced a statutory review of the Graffiti Control Act 2008 (NSW) by the Department of Justice later in the year.
The review is to specifically look at what measures can be introduced to crack down on illegal commercial bill posters.
Sydney, Australia
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ON 28 AUGUST 2014, the NSW Court of Appeal dismissed a summons for leave to appeal by Stephen Dank against orders of the Supreme Court of NSW to dismiss his defamation claims against two of six defendants (the Cronulla Sharks club and their chairman) and struck out his claim against a journalist.
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ON 28 AUGUST 2014, the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption issued a statement advising that the lawyers for the Hon Julia Gillard have been informed of a hearing date in early September.
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ON 28 AUGUST 1958, the High Court of Australia delivered Unsworth v Commissioner for Railways [1958] HCA 41; (1958) 101 CLR 73 (28 August 1958).
An action for contribution is not in itself an action for damages but a statutory right of action assuming the existence of a liability in the party against whom the contribution is sought.
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ON 28 AUGUST 1833, the UK Parliament passed the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Will4/3-4/73/contents
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