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Find out which cases Victor Kline selected for reporting in November 2023.

Australian Intellectual Property Journal update: Vol 34 Pt 1

In Callisi Pty Ltd v Sterling & Freeman Advisory Pty Ltd [2023] VSC 300, the Victorian Supreme Court considered the equitable doctrine of marshalling by apportionment.

Find out which cases Victor Kline has selected for reporting in the authorised reports.

The following Subtitles are now updated and available on Westlaw: Criminal Offences 10.3 “Sexual Offences”; Criminal Sentencing 12.10 “Consequences of Conviction”; Criminal Sentencing 12.12 “Sentencing of Children”; Evidence 16.4 “Testimony”; Health and Guardianship 20.6 “Consent”

The Financial Accountability Regime (FAR), recently established by the long-awaited Financial Accountability Regime Act 2023 (Cth) (the Act), will come into effect for the banking industry in March 2024, and the superannuation and insurance industries in 2025.

Eugene Chan from New Chambers in Sydney has extensively revised annotations to Part 5.1 (Arrangements and reconstructions) of Chapter 5 (External administration) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) in Robson's Annotated Corporations Legislation. Eugene’s revisions to Parts 5.8, 5.8A...

Professor Juliette Overland from the University of Sydney and Professor Michael Legg from the University of New South Wales have joined the team of contributors in Robson’s Annotated Corporations Legislation.

The following Subtitles are now updated and available on Westlaw: Business Organisations 4.6 “Company Takeovers”; Contracts: Specific 8.2 “Real Estate Agents”; Environment and Natural Resources 14.8 “Cultural Heritage”; Equity 15.5 “Declarations”; Professional Liability 27.6 “Brokers”

Australian Intellectual Property Journal update: Vol 33 Pt 4

Given the departure of Governor Philip Lowe and the commencement of the term of the first woman to head the RBA, Michelle Bullock, it is timely to look at her reform agenda.

New legislation information, case annotations and article references have been added to Commonwealth Statutes Annotations, including a note on Hornsby Shire Council v Commonwealth (2023) 97 ALJR 534; [2023] HCA 19, under sections 96 and 114 of the Constitution.