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On 30/09/2011, at 6:53 PM, "Hector MacQueen" <hector.macqueen@ed.ac.uk> wrote:

> I wonder if Australian colleagues have any comment on information about this which has only recently reached me. It appears that last June Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland announced that the Federal Government planned to introduce a contract code by mid-2012. A draft would be circulated towards the end of this year. It would be up to the various States to decide whether to adopt the code, the aim of which would to remove or resolve discrepancies in contract law without having to wait for the High Court to do so. Choice of law between the States was not necessarily the answer for foreign investors in Australia, notably from China. Making the code optional for the States would avoid questions about the Federal Government's power to impose solutions on States. The reaction of the Australian legal profession was at best lukewarm if not hostile.
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> There are some fairly obvious parallels between this and the European Union Optional Instrument project. For those who don't already know, on either 12 or 19 October the European Commission will publish its proposal for the optional instrument, possibly to be known as the European Sales Law, since it will apply only to sale of goods contracts, and not to contract law in general.
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