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Currents Of Change In Climate Litigation In Australia, Elizabeth Spencer, Chris Mcgrath
Currents Of Change In Climate Litigation In Australia, Elizabeth Spencer, Chris Mcgrath
William & Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review
Only a fraction of cases in Australia ever appear in authorized law reports. Hundreds of significant court decisions are overlooked, amid growing concern in several common law jurisdictions that the courts at the highest level may be becoming increasingly aligned with the governments of the day. In tort law, the currents of change can take years and many decisions at various levels before taking hold as established law. In Sharma by her litigation representative Sister Marie Brigid Arthur v Minister for the Environment, a single judge of the Federal Court of Australia, Justice Mordecai Bromberg, held that the Federal …
Raising Corporate Consciousness Of Employer Liability For Video Zoom While Driving, Nanci K. Carr
Raising Corporate Consciousness Of Employer Liability For Video Zoom While Driving, Nanci K. Carr
William & Mary Business Law Review
Imagine that you have logged onto a video Zoom meeting, and you notice that one of the participants is driving. He fumbles with the phone, trying to align the camera with his face, looking from the phone to the road ahead. Other participants on the call either say nothing or thank him for being willing to participate from his car. That is distracted driving, and if he collides with a car or pedestrian due to that distraction, each of those meeting participants could be held liable for distracting the driver. In addition, they would be witnesses to his distracted driving …