Updates & Alerts

Australian Business Law Review update: Vol 49 Pt 4; Australian Tax Review update: Vol 50 Pt 3; Journal of Banking and Finance Law and Practice update: Vol 32 Pt 3; Journal of Civil Litigation and Practice update: Vol 10 Pt 2

Online defamation in the spotlight. The Australian Government has released the exposure draft of the Social Media (Anti-Trolling) Bill 2021 (Cth) to unmask online authors of defamatory comments on social media.

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

The past twelve months have seen significant activity by the Commonwealth government in its efforts to progress reforms to the regulatory framework of Australia’s critical infrastructure to uplift the security and resilience of essential services in Australia.

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

Australian Intellectual Property Journal update: Vol 32 Pt 2; Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law update: Vol 29 Pt 4; Building and Construction Law Journal update: Vol 37 Pt 2; Company and Securities Law Journal update: Vol 38 Pt 8; Environmental and Planning Law...

Australian Law Journal update: Vol 95 Pt 12; Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal update: Vol 31 Pt 3; Journal of Judicial Administration update: Vol 31 Pt 1; Journal of Law and Medicine update: Vol 28 Pt 4; Workplace Review update: Summer 2021

The Houses and Land Contract 17th ed and Residential Community Title Contract 13th ed will be released by the REIQ and QLS on 20 January 2022.

Includes defamation on social media, proposed revisions to Model Defamation, authorising searches during flight, among other updates

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.