Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Wily Quadruped Meets a Saucy Intruder: How Life and Law Intersect
- 2 Controls on Urban Tree Removal in South Australia: an Example of Restricting Property Rights for the Greater Community Benefit
- 3 A Role for International Law in Achieving a Gender Aware Energy Policy
- 4 Energy Efficiency and Rental Accomodation: Dealing with Split Incentives
- 5 Renewable Energy in the Context of Climate Change and Global Energy Resources
- 6 A Biography of Land, Law and Place
- 7 Adrian Bradbrook and Residential Tenancy Reform
- 8 Sustainable Transport: Trends, Issues and Perspectives for International Co-operation in the Implementation of Rio+20 Decisions
- 9 Adrian J Bradbrook's Contributions to the Laws Governing Energy, Climate Change and Poverty Alleviation
- 10 International Energy Law: an Emerging Academic Discipline
- 11 Property Law and Energy Law: One Academic's Perspective
- Adrian J Bradbrook — A Selected Bibliography
- Table of Cases and Legislation
- Selected Index
7 - Adrian Bradbrook and Residential Tenancy Reform
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The Wily Quadruped Meets a Saucy Intruder: How Life and Law Intersect
- 2 Controls on Urban Tree Removal in South Australia: an Example of Restricting Property Rights for the Greater Community Benefit
- 3 A Role for International Law in Achieving a Gender Aware Energy Policy
- 4 Energy Efficiency and Rental Accomodation: Dealing with Split Incentives
- 5 Renewable Energy in the Context of Climate Change and Global Energy Resources
- 6 A Biography of Land, Law and Place
- 7 Adrian Bradbrook and Residential Tenancy Reform
- 8 Sustainable Transport: Trends, Issues and Perspectives for International Co-operation in the Implementation of Rio+20 Decisions
- 9 Adrian J Bradbrook's Contributions to the Laws Governing Energy, Climate Change and Poverty Alleviation
- 10 International Energy Law: an Emerging Academic Discipline
- 11 Property Law and Energy Law: One Academic's Perspective
- Adrian J Bradbrook — A Selected Bibliography
- Table of Cases and Legislation
- Selected Index
Summary
I The Residential Tenancy Law Legacy
In 1983 a text on residential tenancies law in Victoria and South Australia was published; Adrian Bradbrook was a co-author of that text. Publication followed the enactment in the two states of the first comprehensive legislation in Australia for residential tenancy rights and obligations. The text is an exhaustive examination of the legislation and considers the detail of the statute despite the lack of any existing judicial interpretation of its words. It thus analyses the extent to which previous common law principles can be applied. It is also concerned with the provisions for the administration of the legislation, the process of law reform and relevant economic theories. The text further examines the role of the Victorian and South Australian governments in the provision of welfare housing, the enforcement of housing standards and access to housing assistance. At that time the governments of both states had housing authorities which constructed and leased buildings to a broad social group and enforced housing standards for owner-occupied and privately rented premises.
From the particular area of residential tenancy law, Bradbrook and his coauthors progressed in 1991 to a detailed examination of real property law throughout Australia through a textbook and casebook, which have now been in publication for thirty years. The original aim was to establish an authoritative text on the topic at a time when even the existence of a distinct Australian law was disputed.
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- Law as ChangeEngaging with the Life and Scholarship of Adrian Bradbrook, pp. 139 - 168Publisher: The University of Adelaide PressPrint publication year: 2014