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Product Description: The growth of administrative law in Australia has continued in an unabated form since the introduction of innovative reforms in the mid-seventies. The centre plank of these reforms was the establishment of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal with follow-on reforms relating to the Ombudsman, judicial review and freedom of information legislation...read more

Product Description: This volume documents the research carried out by visiting scientists attached to the Institute for Mathematical Sciences (IMS) at the National University of Singapore and the Institute of High Performance Computing (IHPC) under the program "Advances and Mathematical Issues in Large Scale Simulation...read more

Product Description: The four-volume set LNCS 3480-3483 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2005, held in Singapore in May 2005. The four volumes present a total of 540 papers selected from around 2700 submissions...read more

Product Description: Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific and Engineering Computation (IC-SEC) 2002, held December 3-5, 2002 at the Raffles City Convention Center, Singapore. For graduate students and researchers in computational chemistry, computer science and computer engineering...read more

Product Description: This work strives to be the definitive book on the Australian judiciary, comprehensively covering its history, organization, functions, problems and future. Apart from a wealth of descriptive material about different tiers of courts and judges and the role of the judiciary as the third sector of government, the authors offer analysis and commentary about judicial conduct, judicial independence, the work of judges beyond the courts, accountability and the dangers to judicial institutions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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