By Jeff Kelly, Editor
Welcome to the final edition of legal directions for the 2009
calendar year.
This edition includes:
By Judith Waldock
In the February 2009 edition of Legal Directions, Emily Daffy and
Shantini Minjoot discussed a decision of the Tasmanian Full Court
which, as they foreshadowed, attracted the interest of the High
Court.
By Lupe Ortega
In this decision handed down last month, the High Court held that
the licensee of a restaurant was not liable for injuries to its
patrons arising from the criminal conduct of a third party, in
circumstances in which there was no action the licensee could have
taken which would, on the balance of probabilities, have prevented
that conduct.
