Melbourne Law School - Theses
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ItemNo Preview AvailableDeveloping the constitution : a politico-legal essay(University of Melbourne, 1932?)
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ItemDocuments on securities and creditors rights(University of Melbourne, 1975)The materials herewith comprise examples of some forms of documents. They are to be used solely for the purposes of private study by students enrolled in the subject of Securities and Creditors Rights in the Faculty of Law in the University of Melbourne in 1975. They are not to be reproduced either wholly or. in part by any person except with written permission of Mr. A. J. Myers lecturer in the above mentioned subject.,
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ItemAn examination of Teutonic law( 1893)
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ItemAn analysis of aspects of the Australian law of corporate taxation( 1970)The aim of this thesis is to investigate by close analysis the legislation and case law on certain aspects of the Australian law-relating to corporate taxation . To provide some limits within which detailed analysis might. be made within a reasonable compass the study was limited to some of the aspects of corporate taxation law which would be of interest to American manufacturers exporting to Australia, licensing manufacture in Australia, and manufacturing in Australia. The aspects covered are corporate residence, general. business income, royalties, interest, dividends, and section 260 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936-1969 (the Act's statutory anti-avoidance provision).
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ItemCompensation for compulsory acquisition in Victoria( 1974)This thesis explores in some detail the law of compensation for compulsory acquisition in the State of Victoria. An historical survey Is undertaken in Chapter One of Victorian legislation to give the background to and an understanding of the current legislative provisions. These provisions are analysed. Chapter two discusses the relevant case law while chapter three shows the actual practice of a sampling of acquiring authorities in the State of Victoria. Chapter four branches out and takes a quick survey of the legislation in several other jurisdictions. Chapter five pinpoints the major areas of concern and makes some recommendations for improvements in the law.
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ItemThe Commonwealth Industrial Court, 1956-1973( 1974)The issue of separation of powers in the Australian Federation has been one that bas occupied the High Court since its inception. Despite this it was not until 1956 that the Court squarely faced the question of whether or not it was constitutionally permissible to combine in the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration both judicial end non judicial power. In deciding the question in the negative the High Court made necessary the establishment of the Commonwealth Industrial Court.
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ItemAustralian interstate rivers : legal rights and administration( 1971)This thesis analyses the legal and administrative problems which arise in regulating Australian rivers that flaw along or across State boundaries. It commences by describing some practical difficulties that have occurred in recent years. It then ascertains the legal rights of the Commonwealth, the various States and private individuals to the use, flow or control of interstate rivers. In the light of the existing law, it points to weaknesses in the present administrative arrangements for reconciling. inter-government conflicts in water resources management and suggests an entirely new system that might be implemented.
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ItemThe recovery of mistaken payments( 1970)The aim of this dissertation is to provide a survey and analysis of the occasions upon which payments made by mistake may be recovered. The dissertation is divided into four parts : Part I deals with the historical foundations and the philosophical implications of the action, money had and received, which is commonly employed to recover mistaken payments. The "gist of this kind of action is, that the defendant, upon the circumstances of the case, is obliged by the ties of natural justice and equity to refund the money." This then is the broad theme or general criterion that I have tried to bear in mind and introduce throughout this dissertation : is the defendant, in the circumstances, obliged by the ties of natural justice and equity to make restitution? Part II deals with the recovery of money paid under mistake of fact. More specific criteria need to be formulated than that already given in order to ascertain when recovery will be allowed. A test based upon fundamentality of error is posited. Part III deals with the recovery of payments made under mistake of law, after discussing briefly the distinction between mistakes of law and of fact. Since payments made voluntarily under mistake of law cannot, as a rule, be recovered, it is necessary to investigate when a payment may be termed "voluntary". Exceptions to the general rule both at law and in equity are considered. Part IV sets out limitations, qualifications, and defences to actions for the recovery of mistaken payments. Throughout this dissertation I have referred in the main to English and Australian decisions; but I have also drawn on those of other Commonwealth countries. Occasional reference has been made to American law which, as revealed in the pages of the American Law Institute's Restatement of the Law of Restitution, provides an interesting contrast with our local experience and perhaps predicts its destiny. The law is stated as on 31st May, 1970.
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ItemThe law of theft in Victoria( 1967)My theme in this thesis is the contention that the substantive law of theft in Victoria is in an unsatisfactory condition and urgently in need of fundamental and comprehensive reform; and that this is so principally for the following two reasons. Firstly, concepts and rules framed in the early English common law for a relatively primitive society and inadequate for the complex framework and activities of the modern occupationally diversified economy still form the basis of much of the present law of theft. Rigid and circumscribed or artificial and fictional uses, in the law of larceny, of the concept of possession,-when reference should be to modern concepts of ownership of property interests-and of the requirement of trespass, -when reference should be to modern concepts of misappropriation- are examples of this. A legal theory framed only for tangibles has proved incapable of facile and useful adaptation to intangibles. Secondly, the history of the law of theft has been marked by piecemeal, ad hoc improvisation, whether by judiciary or legislature, in the successive creation of new offences, or attempted gap-filling in or between old offences, as each new exigency of theory arose. This has led to a confusing multiplicity of authoritatively distinct, though sometimes overlapping, offences-all within the general sphere of theft. It resembles the planting of fruit trees too close together, as in a thicket where none thrived, though one healthy tree, if planted alone, would have done. In such an atmosphere the law has often lost touch with the realities of everyday life. In certain important respects the position is substantially the same in Victoria today. In the pages which follow I shall endeavour to substantiate my contention by a critical examination of the law and its history, with particular reference to certain fundamental problems, and shall finally discuss, in the light of that examination, the sort of reform which seems to be indicated.