Practical Law Australia

Practical Law Commercial have released a brand new resource, Legal Update, Copyright Amendment (Access Reform) Bill 2021 (Cth).

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has finalised consultation with its stakeholders to provide the new Therapeutic Goods (Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code) Instrument 2021 which repeals the Therapeutic Goods Advertising Code (No. 2) 2018 and will commence on 1 January 2022.

On 28 October 2021, the ACCC published Digital platform services inquiry: Interim report No. 3 – Search defaults (third interim report) and choice screens as part of its Digital platform services inquiry 2020-2025.

Practical Law Commercial have released a new resource, Legal Update, QAD Inc v Shepparton Partners Collective Operations Pty Ltd (sale of business, software licensing and copyright infringement).

Practical Law Banking and Finance has published a suite of new derivatives resources to help guide Australian entities through the negotiation of over-the-counter (OTC) derivative documentation.

A recent determination of the Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner (Commissioner) has found that Clearview AI interfered with the privacy of Australians by engaging in the practice of scraping images of individual’s faces from publicly available websites, such...

Practical Law Commercial: Legal update, Amended Modern Slavery Act 2018 (NSW) commences 1 January 2022.

Practical Law Insolvency and Restructuring has released new resources which provide detailed guidance on key aspects of the debt agreement process.

Practical Law Corporate has published three new documents to its extensive suite of takeovers related documents.

The allocation of director identification numbers (DINs) by the Australian Business Registry Services (ABRS) commenced on 1 November 2021. In this Practice note, the Practical Law Commercial team consider the data protection and privacy issues relevant to both directors and companies...

On 25 October 2021, the Australian Attorney-General’s Department released the long awaited Privacy Act Review Discussion Paper for public consultation. The Discussion Paper proposes wide-ranging and significant reforms to Australia’s Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

A recent decision by the Federal Court of Australia in Nassif v Seven Network (Operations) Ltd [2021] FCA 1286 highlights the consequences of sensationalist news stories in the context of defamation.