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1. What it is
A notice to admit facts is a formal interlocutory step in civil litigation by which one party requires another party to admit, for the purposes of that proceeding only, the truth of specified facts (and, under a related process, the authenticity of specified … Read article
https://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/viewdoc/au/cases/cth/HCA/1979/68.html
See also A Matter of Precedent
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Full case name: Coe v The Commonwealth of Australia and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Heard in Sydney, 24 October 1978. Decided 5 April 1979. Bench: Gibbs, Jacobs, Murphy, and Aickin JJ, four justices only, not … Read article
Ex parvis magna — great things grow from small beginnings: apt for a code that began as one judge’s review of a fragmented body of law.
In 1893, Sir Samuel Walker Griffith was appointed Chief Justice of Queensland, having already served twice as the colony’s Premier … Read article
Reflections on the Principles Articulated by the Hon Chief Justice Gleeson AC
Nemo iudex in causa sua — no man should be a judge in his own cause.
Link to Gleeson CJ speech (HCA url)
At the National Judicial College of Australia in Canberra on 9 February 2007, the Hon Murray Gleeson AC, then Chief Justice of the … Read article
Commonwealth and Other Key Legislation Holding Legal Professionals to Standard
Commonwealth Acts – currently in force
Verba artis ex arte — the words of a craft are to be understood according to the craft.
Language is the mechanism of law. Every right, every obligation, every power to compel or to punish is expressed in words. It follows that whoever controls the definition of words controls the law itself — and, by extension, controls those subject … Read article
An AI generated Definitions of some Court Labels and Capacities. Do your own research if you wish to rely on any definition to ensure it is accurate for your matter/s.
Nomina si nescis, perit cognitio rerum – if you do not know the names of things, knowledge of things perishes. Precision in naming is the beginning of precision in understanding.… Read article
What Australian Law Says
An educational overview of the distinction between true criminal offences and regulatory or quasi-criminal offences, and how a man or woman may invoke the full protections of criminal procedure
Introduction
Not every offence that carries a financial penalty, a licence disqualification, or even a term of imprisonment is treated by Australian law as a true criminal … Read article
What Australian Law Actually Says
An educational overview of the constitutional limits on imprisonment in Australia
Introduction
Few questions in Australian constitutional law carry more practical weight for ordinary men and women than this: under what authority can the state lawfully imprison a man or woman as punishment? The answer is not as simple as many assume, in either direction. … Read article
The Act’s correct citation is:
16 Car. I, c. 10 (also cited as 17 Car. I, c. 10 in some collections due to regnal year reckoning differences)
Full title: An Act for the Regulating the Privy Council and for taking away the Court commonly called the Star Chamber. It is dated 5 July 1641 … Read article