
Overview
Background
Dr William Isdale is a barrister at Callinan Chambers in Brisbane, and an Adjunct Fellow of the UQ Law School. He has a broad commercial and public law practice.
Prior to being called to the Bar, William worked as an Associate at MinterEllison, and as a Senior Legal Officer at the Australian Law Reform Commission. Previously he has served as an Associate to the Hon. Justice Dowsett AM on the Federal Court of Australia, and before that to Commissioner Graeme Neate AM on the Queensland Industrial Relations Commission and Industrial Court of Queensland.
William holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the University of Queensland, a LLM in International Financial and Commercial Law from King’s College London, and a PhD in Law from the University of Queensland.
He was the recipient of the Holt Prize in 2021 for his PhD thesis, which has since been published as a book by The Federation Press (https://federationpress.com.au/product/compensation-for-native-title/). His book is broadly on the topic of native title compensation, but addresses issues relating to compulsory acquisition law, statutory construction, torts relating to property, remedies, and constitutional law. His supervisors were the Hon. Justice Andrew Greenwood of the Federal Court of Australia and Dr Jonathan Fulcher.
William has been a weekly contributor to the Queensland Law Reporter, publishing in excess of 250 case notes with that publication. He has also been a contributor to the Australian Law Reports, and to the LexisNexis Native Title Service. He has published a number of academic articles on both private and public law issues in refereed journals and in other outlets.
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Works
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2022
Journal Article
Shifting sands in the regulation of financial risk
Isdale, William and Simoes da Silva, Nicholas (2022). Shifting sands in the regulation of financial risk. Proctor.
2022
Journal Article
Shifting sands in the regulation of financial risk: the ALRC’s new Background Paper on Risk and Reform in Australian Financial Services Law
Isdale, William and Simoes da Silva, Nicholas (2022). Shifting sands in the regulation of financial risk: the ALRC’s new Background Paper on Risk and Reform in Australian Financial Services Law. Australian Law Reform Commission.
2022
Journal Article
COVID-19, the Principle of Legality and the "Legislative Bulldozer" of the Biosecurity Act 2015 (Cth)
Walpole, Samuel and Isdale, William (2022). COVID-19, the Principle of Legality and the "Legislative Bulldozer" of the Biosecurity Act 2015 (Cth). Public Law Review, 32 (4), 287-290.
2022
Journal Article
"Manner and form" requirements and the Australia Act 1986 (Cth)
Walpole, Samuel and Isdale, William (2022). "Manner and form" requirements and the Australia Act 1986 (Cth). Public Law, 2022 (Apr), 338-341.
2022
Journal Article
Tidying our house of law: bringing the Marie Kondo philosophy to the Commonwealth statute book
Simoes da Silva, Nicholas and Isdale, William (2022). Tidying our house of law: bringing the Marie Kondo philosophy to the Commonwealth statute book. Australian Public Law Blog.
2022
Book
Compensation for Native Title
Isdale, William (2022). Compensation for Native Title. Sydney, NSW, Australia: The Federation Press.
2021
Journal Article
Cutting back the thicket of corporations and financial services law
Isdale, William and Ash, Christopher (2021). Cutting back the thicket of corporations and financial services law. Proctor.
2021
Journal Article
Undue complexity in Australia’s corporations and financial services legislation
Isdale, William and Ash, Christopher (2021). Undue complexity in Australia’s corporations and financial services legislation. Australian Law Reform Commission.
2021
Other Outputs
Compensation for native title: similitude or sui generis
Isdale, William (2021). Compensation for native title: similitude or sui generis. PhD Thesis, T.C. Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/9ae5908
2021
Journal Article
What are the limits to agreeing a civil penalty with a regulator?
Isdale, William and Walpole, Samuel (2021). What are the limits to agreeing a civil penalty with a regulator?. Proctor.
2021
Journal Article
Legislative morass and the rule of law: a warning, and some possible solutions
Isdale, William and Ash, Christopher (2021). Legislative morass and the rule of law: a warning, and some possible solutions. Australian Public Law Blog.
2021
Journal Article
Business Interruption Insurance and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Walpole, Samuel and Isdale, William (2021). Business Interruption Insurance and the COVID-19 Pandemic. Australian Business Law Review, 49 (1), 73-77.
2021
Journal Article
Apprehended bias and the nuclear effect - lessons from the New Acland proceedings
Isdale, William and Simoes da Silva, Nicholas (2021). Apprehended bias and the nuclear effect - lessons from the New Acland proceedings. Australian Public Law Blog.
2021
Journal Article
Developing the law reform mindset: reflections on the move from private practice to the ALRC
Isdale, William (2021). Developing the law reform mindset: reflections on the move from private practice to the ALRC. Australian Law Reform Commission.
2021
Journal Article
Duties of applicants in ex parte applications: lessons from Mineralogy v Western Australia
Isdale, William and Walpole, Samuel (2021). Duties of applicants in ex parte applications: lessons from Mineralogy v Western Australia. Proctor.
2021
Journal Article
You’re almost 20, Corporations Act
Isdale, William and Simoes da Silva, Nicholas (2021). You’re almost 20, Corporations Act. Australian Law Reform Commission.
2020
Journal Article
Amenability of the executive power to pardon to judicial review
Walpole, Samuel , Moss, Aaron and Isdale, William (2020). Amenability of the executive power to pardon to judicial review. Australian Journal of Administrative Law, 27 (4), 193-197.
2020
Journal Article
Northern Land Council v Quall - implications for the exercise of statutory functions by corporations
Isdale, William and Walpole, Samuel (2020). Northern Land Council v Quall - implications for the exercise of statutory functions by corporations. AUSPUBLAW.
2020
Journal Article
Doing without the Wagyu and Shiraz: the Westpac automated loans decisions
Isdale, William and Walpole, Sam (2020). Doing without the Wagyu and Shiraz: the Westpac automated loans decisions. Proctor.
2020
Journal Article
Indemnity of a reasonable settlement
William Isdale and Sam Walpole (2020). Indemnity of a reasonable settlement. Proctor, 40 (4), 34-36.
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