Understanding Legal Barriers to Abortion Access During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Australian Pregnant People's Experiences [0.03%]
新冠肺炎疫情期间澳大利亚育龄人群获得堕胎服务的法律障碍及经历
Jennifer Schulz,Christine Forster
Jennifer Schulz
The Australian regulatory framework for abortion shifted recently from criminalisation to a health model. Decriminalisation is only one step towards the realisation of full reproductive rights for pregnant people. Numerous barriers persist....
Russ Scott,Allan Cala
Russ Scott
Although the function of a coronial inquest is to determine the time, manner and cause of death, in cases of an unexpected or suspicious death or putative suicide, the coroner relies upon an analysis of the evidence collected from the death...
Case Reports
Journal of law and medicine. 2025 Apr;31(4):783-825. DOI: 2025
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) and the Characterisation of "Obvious Risk of Harm": Dangerous Recreational Activity, Assumption of Risk, and Other Defences [0.03%]
慢性创伤性脑病（CTE）与“明显危险”的特征：危险休闲活动、风险自担及其他抗辩事由
David Thorpe
David Thorpe
As athletes who are said to be suffering with the symptoms of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) move towards prosecuting their Sport Governing Body (SGB) in negligence, a critical aspect of a plaintiff's claim is how a court of law wil...
Coronial Oversight of the Operation of and Access to Voluntary Assisted Dying Regimes [0.03%]
冠庭審對自愿輔助死制度的運作和訪問的監督
Ian Freckelton
Ian Freckelton
This article considers the role of coroners as a porthole into the content and operation of voluntary assisted dying (VAD) regimes. In their role as investigators of unexplained, unnatural, violent and accidental deaths, coroners are unique...
Rachel Feeney,Lindy Willmott,Ben White
Rachel Feeney
The law plays an important role in governing end-of-life decision-making in paramedic practice. A scoping review was undertaken to identify and examine the extent, range and nature of literature on the legal issues relevant to end-of-life c...
Suicide, Ethics and the Law: Parliamentary Debates on Suicide in South Australia [0.03%]
自杀、伦理与法律：南澳大利亚议会关于自杀的辩论
Margaret Brown,Kate Leeson
Margaret Brown
In recent years, the South Australian Parliament has debated Bills related to suicide in three different contexts. A review of these debates demonstrates that not all Members of Parliament fully appreciated the complexity of the issues rais...
End-of-Life Decisions and the Need for Greater Rigour in the Determination of a Child's Best Interests [0.03%]
临终决定及确定儿童最佳利益过程的严谨性问题
James Cameron,Cameron Stewart,Julian Savulescu
James Cameron
This column discusses the New South Wales Supreme Court decision in H v OL [2024] NSWSC 271. That decision raises a number of issues about how the "best interests" principle is employed in cases where disputes arise about whether life-susta...
New Zealand's Once-Visionary Accident Compensation Scheme and Australia's Revolutionary Vision in its National Disability Insurance Scheme: A Tale of Two Countries [0.03%]
新西兰曾经富有远见的意外补偿制度和澳大利亚国家残障保险 scheme 的革命性构想：两个国家的故事
Joanna Manning
Joanna Manning
New Zealand's "visionary" accident compensation scheme came into force in 1974. Described as "the original sin" of the scheme, eligibility was confined, largely for affordability reasons, to accidental injury, leaving disability from sickne...
David Ranson
David Ranson
Courts and legal processes are being challenged by the increasing utilisation of artificial intelligence (AI) applications. At the same time practitioners in many disciplines involved in providing expert evidence are increasingly using arti...
Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease: Public Health Insights from Coroners' Inquests [0.03%]
急性风湿热和风湿性心脏病： coroner's inquest 的公共卫生启示
Ian Freckelton
Ian Freckelton
This editorial reviews the state of clinical knowledge about acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD). It uses the lenses of public health and coronial law to consider the pathology which is significantly over-represent...
Editorial
Journal of law and medicine. 2025 Apr;31(4):653-674. DOI: 2025