The Evidence Act 1995 (NSW) (hereafter EA) commenced on 1 September 1995. The Act sought to clarify and reform complex rules of evidence including the rules relating to the admissibility of expert evidence in criminal trials. In doing so however the legislation has raised its own complexities....
(1) The uniform Evidence Act regime was the result of the Australian Law Reform Commission's ('ALRC') inquiry into the law of evidence, following its receipt of Terms of Reference in 1979, which produced an interim and final report that contained draft legislation. (2) The uniform evidence...
Key words searched were: “nutrition AND policy AND tax”, “legislation AND obesity”, “tax food”, “elasticity of demand”, “policy AND “soft drink””, “policy AND “fast food””, “food AND prices”, “elasticity AND nutrition”, and “fat tax”. Databases used were: Pubmed/...
A particular effort has been made to explain and assess the changes in the law brought about by the Evidence Act 1995 (Cth and NSW), the Evidence Act 2001 (Tas), the Evidence Act 2008 (Vic), the Evidence Act 2010 (ACT), and the Evidence (National Uniform Legislation) Act 2011 (NT)...