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Dr William Isdale
Dr

William Isdale

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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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Availability

Dr William Isdale is:
Available for supervision

Works

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33 works between 2013 and 2022

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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.

Shifting sands in the regulation of financial risk: the ALRC’s new Background Paper on Risk and Reform in Australian Financial Services Law

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.

Shifting sands in the regulation of financial risk

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.

COVID-19, the Principle of Legality and the "Legislative Bulldozer" of the Biosecurity Act 2015 (Cth)

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.

"Manner and form" requirements and the Australia Act 1986 (Cth)

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.

Tidying our house of law: bringing the Marie Kondo philosophy to the Commonwealth statute book

2022

Book

Compensation for Native Title

Isdale, William (2022). Compensation for Native Title. Sydney, NSW, Australia: The Federation Press.

Compensation for Native Title

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.

Cutting back the thicket of corporations and financial services law

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.

Undue complexity in Australia’s corporations and financial services legislation

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

Compensation for native title: similitude or sui generis

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.

What are the limits to agreeing a civil penalty with a regulator?

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.

Legislative morass and the rule of law: a warning, and some possible solutions

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.

Business Interruption Insurance and the COVID-19 Pandemic

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.

Apprehended bias and the nuclear effect - lessons from the New Acland proceedings

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.

Developing the law reform mindset: reflections on the move from private practice to the ALRC

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.

Duties of applicants in ex parte applications: lessons from Mineralogy v Western Australia

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.

You’re almost 20, Corporations Act

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.

Amenability of the executive power to pardon to judicial review

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.

Northern Land Council v Quall - implications for the exercise of statutory functions by corporations

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.

Doing without the Wagyu and Shiraz: the Westpac automated loans decisions

2020

Journal Article

Indemnity of a reasonable settlement

William Isdale and Sam Walpole (2020). Indemnity of a reasonable settlement. Proctor, 40 (4), 34-36.

Indemnity of a reasonable settlement

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