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Back home from Australia.

Tort Law conference in Sydney was quite impressive. Good line-up of speakers, including Lord Hoffmann, recently retired from the House of Lords. Lord Hoffmann is well known for his erudite tort law judgments, particularly in reference to issues of causation and public authority liability. Lord Hoffmann gave an excellent account of the economic torts, with particular reference to OBG v Allan. The Chief Justice of the Australian High Court, Chief Justice French, opened the two day conference with a very thorough and scholarly talk, over viewing the conference themes. My topic was on public authority liability discussing the Canadian experience, which is quite unique in the Commonwealth.

Kudos to the organizers, Jamie Edelman (Oxford) and Simone Degeling (UNSW) for a great job.

Soon back to politics.

Happy New Year!