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Mosman Municipal Council v Keesing [2006] NSWLEC 836
Mosman Municipal Council v Keesing [2006] NSWLEC 836 (18 April 2006).
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/nsw/NSWLEC/2006/836.html
Sydney, Australia
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NSW Recorded Crime Statistics 2013
ON 10 APRIL 2014, the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research released the NSW Recorded Crime Statistics 2013.
Statewide
- Most major categories fell or remained stable in the 24 months to December 2013.
- Significant downward trends were shown in seven of the major offences, including robbery without a weapon (down 11.2%), break and enter dwelling (down 13.3%), break and enter non-dwelling (down 10.5%), motor vehicle theft (down 12.9%), steal from motor vehicle (down 5.0%), steal from person (down 11.8%) and malicious damage to property (down 8.1%).
- Increases were recorded with respect fraud (up 13.2 per cent) and indecent assault, act of indecency and other sexual offences (up 7.8%).
- Non-domestic assaults were stable.
Greater Sydney
- ndecent assault, act of indecency and other sexual offences increased in the Inner West (up 41.6%), the Outer South West (up 9.0%) and the South West (up 11.5%).
- Stealing from a retail store increased more than 20% in the Northern Beaches, Outer West & Blue Mountains and Ryde.
- Break and enter dwelling increased 23.7% in Sutherland but fell in Blacktown (down 25.8%), the Central Coast (down 23.1%), the City and Inner South (down 9.4%), the Eastern Suburbs (down 28.2%), the Inner West (down 17.7%), North Sydney and Hornsby (down 30.8%) and the Northern Beaches (down 21.3%).
Outside Greater Sydney
- Fraud increased in Central West (up 32.8%), Coffs Harbour-Grafton (up 41.5%), Richmond-Tweed (up 18.6%) and the Southern Highlands and Shoalhaven (up 58.3%).
- Most areas experienced either stable or falling trends.
- Break and enter non-dwelling and motor vehicle theft were particularly fell in 9 out of 13 statistical areas.
Other changes
- Assault police increased (up 18.1%, from 2,234 offences in 2012 to 2,639 offences in 2013).
- Drug offences increased, including possession/use of cocaine (up 16.9%), possession/use of amphetamines (up 5.7%) and dealing/trafficking in cannabis (up 8.4%).
- Other increases included prohibited and regulated weapons offences (up 15.2%), breach bail (up 6.0%), other offences against justice procedures (up 17.9%) and transport regulatory offences (up 20.3%).
- Shooting incidents were highly variable but did not exhibit any upward or downward trend in the period.
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Commonwealth Bank of Australia v Barker [2014] HCATrans 74
TRANSCRIPT of day two in Commonwealth Bank of Australia v Barker [2014] HCATrans 74 (9 April 2014). Decision reserved.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/HCATrans/2014/74.html
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Opening statements to Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption
ON 9 APRIL 2014, opening statements were made to the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption.
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Commonwealth Bank of Australia v Barker [2014] HCATrans 73
TRANSCRIPT of High Court day one in the matter of Commonwealth Bank of Australia v Barker [2014] HCATrans 73 (8 April 2014). Adjourned to 9 April.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/HCATrans/2014/73.html
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Taylor v The Owners – Strata Plan No 11564 & Ors [2014] HCA 9
ON 2 APRIL 2014, the High Court of Australia delivered Taylor v The Owners Strata Plan 11564 [2014] HCA 9.
The appellant, Susan Taylor, successfully appealed a decision of the NSW Court of Appeal with respect to a claim for a fatal accident involving her late husband, Craig Taylor. The deceased was killed on 7 December 2007, when an awning outside a shop on Sydney Road, Balgowlah, collapsed on him. The appellant made a claim under the Compensation to Relatives Act 1897 on her own behalf and on behalf of the dependants of the deceased. Part of the claim involved a loss of expectation of financial support.
The High Court held that s12(2) of the Civil Liability Act 2002 (NSW) (which limits damages for economic loss and loss of expectation of financial support) does not apply to claims under the Compensation to Relatives Act 1897 (NSW). It was held that Act is to be construed so that the limits imposed by the section related to the “claimant” but not the deceased. Accordingly, when assessing damages for loss of expectation of financial support, the court was not required to disregard the amount by which the deceased’s gross weekly earnings, but for his death, would have exceeded three times the average weekly earnings.
Sydney, Australia
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NSW Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages v Norrie [2014] HCA 11
ON 2 APRIL 2014, the High Court of Australia delivered NSW Registrar of Birth, Deaths and Marriages v Norrie [2014] HCA 11 (2 April 2014).
The High Court held that a person’s sex can be registered as “non-specific”.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/cth/HCA/2014/11.html
Sydney, Australia
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Whaling in the Antarctic (Australia v Japan: New Zealand intervening) | International Court of Justice
ON 31 MARCH 2014, the International Court of Justice found Japan’s Antarctic whaling program to be not in accordance with the relevant international convention.
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