One hundred and fifty years ago, with the introduction of the Torrens system into Australia, it was considered vital to incorporate compensation provisions into the Torrens legislation to enable a person sustaining loss through the operation of the system to obtain compensation from an assurance...

Under the Torrens system of land registration it is irrefutable that, pursuant to the fraud exception, a fraudulent registered proprietor does not acquire an indefeasible title. There are two clear categories of cases in which the fraud exception may arise: (1) where a prior registered...

The non-fraudulent registered mortgagee of Torrens system land obtains an immediately indefeasible title that is immune from challenge by adverse claims. The validating effect of registration extends to all terms in the mortgage that are integral to the mortgagee's interest in the land. However,...

Recognition of increased diversity within Australian legal education means law teachers have to respond to a broader variety of student needs, both at a macro level in admissions and curriculum planning and at a micro level through learning and teaching. Australian law schools have spent the...

This article highlights the inadequacies of considering interests in land (property) in terms of individualistic private interests, in light of the ecological issues facing society at large. It does so using the CSG debate as an example of the limitations inherent in our system of private land...

Posing the challenges facing legal education as concerned with its under- or over-regulation is the wrong question. Instead, we need to cast fresh eyes on the question of legal education beyond the binary of over- and under-regulation. This paper identifies three inter-related factors that...

This Report canvasses the state of play in lawyers' work. It aims to provide a benchmark from which to explore future professional competencies. It is based on a review of literature concerning the current state of lawyers' work, drawn principally from institutional reports across common law...