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    Compulsory maintenance of the Land Register: an exception to the fundamental principle of a conclusive register underpinning the Land Registration Act 2002
    Park, M. M. ( 2004)
    The experience of the then Australian colonies in introducing land title registration in the nineteenth century provides a vantage point to observe and provide commentary on the recently enacted Land Registration Act 2002.The author offers the observation that the legislative draftsperson has, perhaps inadvertently, included an exception to what the Law Commission described as ‘the fundamental principle’ of a land registration system, that of the conclusive register wherein interests not recorded in the register have no legal effect. Thus, pursuant to the adverse possession provisions of the Act, it is possible for a trespasser or squatter to acquire an unassailable title to registered land without that title being disclosed on the register. The conclusion, based on the Australian experience, is that the advantages of registered title land are insufficient to overcome the inertia of interest holders and mandatory participation in the registered title system is essential for the integrity of the register.
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    Genealogies of Digital Light, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Wednesday 29 November 2006
    CUBITT, SEAN ( 2006)
    The light of the world, casting light on dark places, enlightenment (East and West), the light that goes out of the eyes of the dying: illumination is more than physics. It is a central human metaphor. Those metaphors in turn are not only remnants of ancient paganisms and old beliefs, though they are in that respect ways in which we recall our otherwise anonymous ancestors. They are also tools that shape our thinking, that structure some of the great accounts of light from Grosseteste's De Luce (in MacKenzie 1996) to Newton's Opticks (1952), Goethe's Farbenlehre (1967) to Einstein's General Theory of Relativity andPlanck's foundational observations on the principles of quantum dynamics. And of course light is central to the techniques, technologies and discourses of the visual arts, and among them not least of photography. Light is the raw material of photography, in a purer sense than is true of any of the earlier visual arts save perhaps stained glass.