PublicationsLaws of Australia Richard Travers is the author of the sections on product liability and medical practitioners in the Law Book Company’s Laws of Australia. The Laws of Australia is Australia’s leading legal encyclopaedia. The work covers the all aspects of Australian law, incorporating the work of more than 400 of Australia’s foremost legal experts. The choice of Richard Travers to write two major sections of this prestigious publication reflects his standing as a leading Australian practitioner in the field of complex litigation. Publications on litigation management In 2003 and 2004, Richard Travers published a series of articles on aspects of litigation management in LexisNexis Butterworths’ Inhouse Counsel magazine. They were:- Three Critical Questions for Managing Commercial Litigation:-
When two heads are better than one
and Litigation Risk Management:-
Journals Richard Travers’ journal publications include:- Litigation and the Medical Indemnity Crisis (2004) 12 JLM 178 The medical indemnity crisis in Australia forced doctors, lawyers and insurers to re-appraise the way they handle claims for compensation for medical error. This article examined some of the new approaches available in Australia when patients claim compensation from their doctors.
Medical Causation (2002) 76 ALJ 258 This article analysed the situation that reputable medical scientists claim that factor A may cause disease B. They do not claim to have proven that A causes B; they only claim to have evidence which suggests that it may. The article examined the circumstances in which a court may accept the evidence of those scientists as amounting to proof on the balance of probabilities that a plaintiff contracted B as a result of A.
Confidentiality of Legal Advice after Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Daniels Corporation (2002) 9 CCLJ 289 This article commented on the decision of the Full Court of the Federal Court in Daniels’ case. It examined the arguments on the basis of which the Full Court held that s155 of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) displaced the doctrine of legal professional privilege, arguing that Daniels was wrongly decided. The High Court later overturned Daniels (see (2002) 77 ALJR 40)
A Proposal to Reform Australian Product Liability Law (1995) 69 ALJ 1006 This article reviewed how different theories of product liability law impacted on issues which arose in product liability litigation. It suggested that Australian product liability law should be simplified.
Australia’s New Product Liability Law (1993) 67 ALJ 516 This article was written shortly after the Commonwealth Parliament had introduced a derivative of the European Product Liability Directive as Part VA of the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth). It examined how the code might be adapted to Australian judicial conditions.
Commercial Arbitration in New South Wales – too much judicial interference? (1987) 4 J Int Arb 2, 122 History Richard Travers is the author of Diggers in France: Australian Soldiers on the Western Front. In the Australian National Literary Awards for 2008 Diggers in France was commended in the FAW Melbourne University Publishing Award (the premier category in the National Literary Awards for works of history) as displaying ‘academic and literary distinction of a high order’ and as making ‘compelling reading’. Click here for a link to www.diggersinfrance.com.au He has recently completed writing Empire in Conflict: The Australian Campaigns in Libya and Greece, which is the story of the first diggers to enlist in the Second World War.» Contact Us
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