ON THIS DAY in 1991, the NSW Adoption Information Act 1990 came into force. The Act granted adoptees and relinquished parents the right to access adoption information and express interest in contact or veto contact. The Act was repealed by the Adoption Act 2000 which carried over the 1990 provisions.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/num_act/aia1990n63257
ON 27 NOVEMBER 1989, the NSW Parliament enacted the Environmental Offences and Penalties Act 1989.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/num_act/eoapa1989n150370
The Act has since been repealed and incorporated in the NSW Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1987.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/poteoa1997455
Sydney, Australia
1300 00 2088
ON 8 APRIL 1988, the High Court of Australia delivered Hawkins v Clayton [1988] HCA 15; (1988) 164 CLR 539 (8 April 1988).
A firm of solicitors was held to be negligent by failing to take reasonable steps to locate an executor (a non-client) following the death of a testatrix (a client whose will they prepared and retained for safe keeping) for some six years after the testatrix’s death. The solicitors were held to be liable to pay damages for the loss suffered by the executor (who was also a residuary beneficiary) in not being able to manage the estate during the period of delay.
The majority (Brennan, Deane and Gaudron JJ) held that the solicitors owed a tortious duty of care to the executor and that the action was not statute-barred.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HCA/1988/15.html
Sydney, Australia
1300 00 2088
ON 1 AUGUST 1984, the Commonwealth Sex Discrimination Act 1984 commenced.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/sda1984209/
1300 00 2088
ON 25 JUNE 1984, the Commonwealth Insurance Contracts Act 1984 was enacted.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/ica1984220/
The Act introduced a range of measures to promote good faith and fairness in contractual dealings between insurers and their insured.
1300 00 2088
ON 1 DECEMBER 1983, the NSW Community Justice Centres Act 1983 commenced.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/cjca1983302
Sydney, Australia
1300 00 2088
ON 21 DECEMBER 1979, the NSW Parliament enacted the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/epaaa1979389/notes.html
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/poteoa1997455
Sydney, Australia
1300 00 2088
ON 28 APRIL 1977, the NSW Parliament enacted the Anti Discrimination Act 1977.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/nsw/consol_act/aa1977204
1300 00 2088
ON THIS DAY in 1976, the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia enacted the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/alrta1976444
1300 00 2088
ON THIS DAY in 1976, the Commonwealth Family Law Act 1975 commenced.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/fla1975114
Sydney, Australia
1300 00 2088
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