[1987] Reform 211 • Occupational Regulation. First joint • Medical treatment for minors. DP in DP on occupational regulation, ‘Es­ preparation. tate Agents and Auctioneers*, has • Medical treatment for the dying. DP been published by the Commission in preparation. and the Regulation Review Unit. Two more papers on general reg­ • Police Act Offences. DP in prepara­ ulatory principles and secondhand tion. dealers/pawnbrokers are near com­ • Minors Contracts. Report in prepa­ pletion. ration. • Medicine Science and the Law. A • Limitation and notice of actions. DP on gene modification will be re­ DP in preparation. leased soon, and a more general pa­ per on the subject is ready to be • Payment of Witnesses in Civil Pro­ printed. Symposium papers on in­ ceedings. DP in preparation. formed consent and a DP on the sub­ ject are with the printer. * * * • Obsolete Legislation. Report tabled by the Attorney-General in August. obituary Copies will be available in October. • Land Law. Report on Mortgagee’s Sir Richard Blackburn Auctions and Judgment Debts was Australian National University Chancellor, tabled in August. A ‘plain English’ Sir Richard Blackburn, died in Canberra Subdivision Bill was drafted and is this month, aged 69. Sir Richard had due for introduction in the Legisla­ been associated with Law Reform for many tive Council soon. Final drafts of years. He was Chairman of the Law Re­ the Torrens Register report are be­ form Commission of the Australian Capital ing examined by consultants. Territory between 1971 and 1976. He had • Sexual Offences. ‘Rape and Allied been Chancellor of the ANU since 1984. Offences: Substantive Aspects’ re­ He was Chief Judge of the Supreme Court port has been tabled. Three con­ of the Australian Capital Territory from sultancy projects relating to child 1977 to 1982 and Chief Justice of that sex abuse have been commissioned. court from 1982 to 1985. He was a judge The report on procedural and evi­ of the Federal Court from 1977 to 1985 dentiary aspects of the rape refer­ and a judge of the Supreme Court of the ence is in a final draft form. Papers Northern Territory from 1966 to 1971. Sir on child victims, and victims with Richard is survived by his widow, Lady He­ impaired mental functioning are in len Blackburn, and a son and a daughter. preparation. * * * Western Australia Law Reform Com­ mission (WALRC) • personalia • Criminal Process and Mental Disor­ der. DP issued and comments being The Hon Justice Michael Kirby considered. CMG • Local Courts. Report in prepara­ Former Chairman of the Australian Law tion. Reform Commission and now President of.