Traditional “formalities” in the law of wills—including formal requirements for revocation by destruction—contemplate paper documents, wet signatures, and testators and witnesses in the physical presence of one another. Unless these traditional requirements have been modified by legislation, wills made using one or more electronic formalities will not meet…
Please join members of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research for a public lecture on Thursday 29 May 2025, with Bill Mitchell OAM HonLLD presenting. All are welcome to attend. Event details Date: Thursday 29 May 2025 Time: 5.30pm to 7.00pm AEST Location: Owen J Wordsworth (OJW) Room, S Block,…
Another election, another wave of unsolicited political texts. Over this campaign, our digital mailboxes have been stuffed with a slew of political appeals and promises, many from the new party Trumpet of Patriots (backed by Clive Palmer, a veteran of the mass text campaign). The practice isn’t new, and it’s…
A new issue of Law, Technology and Humans has been published. Volume 7(1) includes a collection of symposium articles from Narratives, Frontier Technologies, and the Law. Guest Editors Henrique Marcos and Syamsuriatina binti Ishak (Maastricht University, The Netherlands) have brought together a collection of articles that discuss how…
US President Donald Trump has imposed a range of tariffs on all products entering the US market, with Australian exports set to face a 10% tariff, effective April 5. These import taxes will be charged by US customs on each imported item. The punitive tariffs on 60 countries…
Researchers from QUT’s Australian Centre for Health Law Research and Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation have been awarded $450,000 from the Wicking Trust’s ‘Bring Death Back into Life’ Grant round for the 3-year project ‘Empowering older Australians to make informed end-of-life choices through connecting system silos.’ This…
A new edition of Creighton & Stewart’s Labour Law, written by Andrew Stewart, Anthony Forsyth, Mark Irving, Richard Johnstone and Shae McCrystal, has just been published. This seventh edition of Australia’s most authoritative text on labour law provides a comprehensive account of the rules and processes governing employment…
Employers often seek to limit what workers can do after they finish their current job, through non-compete clauses and other agreed post-employment restraints. New research by Professors Paula McDonald and Andrew Stewart from the QUT School of Law, together with Diane van den Broek and Catherine Kennon, sheds…
On April 2 the United States is set to implement a new wave of tariffs under its Fair and Reciprocal Trade Plan. Details of the plan that will impact all US trading partners are not yet known, but the US administration has suggested these tariffs will target any rules…
A new publication from legal scholars has highlighted the conflicts involved in the contemporary focus of bibliometrics in assessing researcher quality. Kieran Tranter (QUT) and Timothy Peters (UniSC) report on a study of Australian-based law researchers’ H-index and total citation counts, as recorded on Google Scholar in September…
