Australian Law Journal

GENERAL EDITOR Justice François Kunc

ASSISTANT GENERAL EDITORS Nuncio D’Angelo Angelina Gomez Ruth Higgins Emily Vale Solicitor, Lawyer, Perth , Sydney Solicitor, Sydney

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The views expressed in editorial comment, articles or notes are those of the author or contributor, and are not to be taken as being the views of, or endorsed by, the journal editors unless otherwise indicated.

The Australian Law Journal is a refereed journal.

Australian Law Journal Reports

PRODUCTION EDITOR Carolyn May

CASE REPORTERS John Carroll Colleen Tognetti Stefan Skopelja

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THE AUSTRALIAN LAW JOURNAL

Volume 92, Number 1

January 2018

CURRENT ISSUES – Editor: Justice François Kunc Same Sex Marriage Law Reform ...... 7 Religious Freedom Review ...... 7 Judicial Conduct and Training ...... 8 Voluntary Assisted Dying in Victoria ...... 9 Guest Contributions ...... 9 Campaign for a National Anti-corruption Body ...... 10 The Allens Hub for Technology, Law and Innovation ...... 10 Paperless Trials in the NSW Land and Environment Court ...... 11 ALJ Assistant General Editor: Hail and Farewell ...... 12

CONVEYANCING AND PROPERTY – Editors: Robert Angyal SC and Brendan Edgeworth Intersection Between Informal Wills and Testamentary Competence ...... 13

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW – Editor: A Tale of Two Cases: Wilkie v Commonwealth and Re Canavan ...... 17

EQUITY AND TRUSTS – Editor: Justice Mark Leeming Ex Parte Candour, Solicitors’ Liens and Set-off ...... 22

RECENT CASES – Editor: Ruth C A Higgins Family Law: Financial Agreements – Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) Pt viiia – Pre-Nuptial and Post-Nuptial Agreements – Whether Agreements Voidable for Duress, Undue Influence, or Unconscionable Conduct ...... 25 United Kingdom: Criminal Law – Dishonesty – Gambling Act 2005 (UK) s 42 – Test in R v Ghosh [1982] QB 1053 ...... 27 Practice: Costs: Non-Party Costs – Plaintiff Company Insolvent – Unable to Meet Order for Costs – Costs Against Applicant Director – Whether Applicant “Real Party” to Litigation ...... 30

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THE AUSTRALIAN JUDICIAL SYSTEM: CAUSES FOR DISSATISFACTION K M Hayne There are causes for dissatisfaction with the Australian judicial system. Some are unalterable but some causes for dissatisfaction can, and must, provoke change. Time and cost are the chief problems. The courts must respond by changing the way in which litigation is conducted and judges do their work lest the judicial system become irrelevant...... 32

BARWICK, BANKRUPTCY AND THE HUMAN DIMENSION Hon Justice Andrew Greenwood This article is the text of an address given by the Hon Justice Andrew Greenwood in 2016 in opening the International Personal Insolvency Conference held in at the Queensland University of Technology. The theme of the Conference was “The Human Dimension to Bankruptcy”. The address illustrates the theme by reference to the circumstances that confronted Sir Garfield Barwick as a young barrister leading to his bankruptcy in June 1930. The address also comments upon some aspects of the issues relating to proposed changes to bankruptcy laws the subject of discussion at the Conference...... 48

OBITUARIES The Honourable Rosemary Balmford AM ...... 61 The Rt Hon Sir Ninian Martin Stephen PC KG AK GCMG CGVO KBE QC ...... 61

General Editors of the Australian Law Journal

1927 to 1946 – Mr (later Sir) Bernard Sugerman 1946 to 1958 – Mr (later Justice) Rae Else-Mitchell 1946 to 1961 – Mr (later Sir) 1958 to 1967 – Mr (later Justice) Russell Fox 1967 to 1973 – Mr (later Justice) Philip Jeffrey 1974 to 1992 – Professor J G Starke QC 1992 to 2016 – The Hon Justice P W Young AO 2016 to present – The Hon Justice François Kunc

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Australian Law Journal Reports

HIGH COURT REPORTS – Staff of Thomson reuters

DECISIONS RECEIVED IN NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2017

ALDI Foods Pty Ltd v Shop, Distributive & Allied Employees Association (Industrial Law) ([2017] HCA 53) ...... 33 Dimitrov v Supreme Court (Vic) () ([2017] HCA 51) ...... 12 HFM045 v Republic of Nauru (Citizenship and Migration) ([2017] HCA 50) ...... 1 Nash (No 2), Re (Constitutional Law) ([2017] HCA 52) ...... 23

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