Contemporary Law Reform

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To what extent has law reform responded effectively to contemporary law issues?

Law reform or legal reform is the process of examining existing laws, and advocating and implementing changes in a legal system, usually with the aim of enhancing justice or efficiency. Intimately related are law reform bodies or law commissions, which are organisations set up to facilitate law reform. Often law reform is slow to come about as requires changing statute law therefor is only catching up on common law and standardising punishments. I'm most contemporary issues like technology, innovative marketing and credit law reform is ineffective in its response as it takes to long to implement and theses contemporary law issues are continually evolving. …show more content…

The issue is formed by the consistent evolution of technology and the struggle of legislation to keep up with the new innovations. The Electronic Transactions Act 1999 (Cwlth) has address many of the issues associated with consumer contracts negotiated over the internet. Electronic transactions amendment act 2011 (cwth) was introduce to keep up with new technology and to bring Australia’s laws in line with the rest of the world. However it took 17 years to impliement change and within those 17 years technology changed vastly and legislation hasn't kept up. The major risk to people due to new technology is inadequate laws surrounding private the Privacy and Personal Information Protection Act 1998 outlines how New South Wales public sector agencies manage personal information and the functions of the NSW Privacy Commissioner however this legislation is 18 years old and is not able to keep up with new technology that lies in a grey area this includes metadata which is a new technological innovation. This news article outlines how new technology is exploring the general public's privacy "Data retention and the end of Australians' digital privacy"August 29, 2015 “The digital privacy of Australians ends from Tuesday, October 13”as “Intelligence and law enforcement agencies will have immediate, warrantless and accumulating …show more content…

Marketing innovations are used by companies to have cut through in saturated marketplaces, as they are different and hopefully catches the consumers’ eye. Marketing innovation is all about being new ways of marketing and often incorporate new technology which leads to new law reform being needed to govern the innovations. spam act 2003 (cth) and Do not call act 2006 that had the purpose of stopping unsolicited telemarketing calls to a number registered on the Do Not Call Register were both legislations brought in to deal with innovative marketing strategies that utilises new technology. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Reckitt Benckiser [2015 focused on marketing innovation of Nurofen however "Lawyers for pharmaceutical giant Reckitt Benckiser admitted today in court that the company had engaged in "deceptive and misleading" behaviour by advertising that four products could treat specific types of pain” (ABC Nurofen maker admits to court it engaged in 'deceptive and misleading' behaviour 14 Apr 2016) this cast achieved justice for society by the use of The Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) which replaced the Fair Trading Act 1987 (NSW) however it has not been decided what the penalty is to be a fine which is ineffective at achieving justice for an individual and compensating them for their losses. Marketing innovations have been well

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