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Practical Law Insolvency and Restructuring has recently published a new Practice note, Safe harbour: a best practice guide for directors, authored by Macaire Bromley, Executive Director NSW, Vantage Performance. The note is designed to provide guidance for directors seeking safe...

Please be aware that we have identified a bug with The Laws of Australia category page. When users search across the entire publication, the search will run perfectly. This is the sites default behaviour so many users will not have noticed the issue. However if users specify topical...

Unfortunately we have identified a bug with some of these Practice Area pages. When you search the Practice Area page without ticking “Specify content to search” the search will run perfectly. This is the sites default behaviour so you may not have noticed this issue. However for some...

The following Subtitles are now updated and available on Westlaw AU: Bankruptcy 3.10 “Investigations”; Civil Procedure 5.9 “Appeals”; Communications 6.2 “Criminal Defamation”; Communications 6.7 “Radiocommunications”; Criminal Procedure 11.11 “Confiscation of Proceeds of Crime”...

Australasian Dispute Resolution Journal update: Vol 30 Pt 4; Company and Securities Law Journal update: Vol 38 Pt 1; Insolvency Law Journal update: Vol 28 Pt 3; Journal of Civil Litigation and Practice update: Vol 9 Pt 2

The High Court ruled today that a British subject who arrived in Australia in 1948 can be considered an alien within the meaning of s 51(xix) of the Constitution. Justice Nettle delivered the judgment in Chetcuti v Commonwealth of Australia [2020] HCA 42.

Australian Law Journal Vol 94 Pt 11; Environmental and Planning Law Journal Vol 37 Pt 6; Tort Law Review Vol 27 Pt 3

Insight into sections 13, 18, 44, 46, 55, 59, 65, 66, 90, 97, 101, 125, 128A, 131, 164 and the Dictionary of the Uniform Evidence Acts with particular reference to competence and the lack of capacity, compellability in relation to spousal communications, evidence of a representation...

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Judicial Commentary on Migration Act Legislative or Administrative Improvement

Australian Intellectual Property Journal Vol 31 Pt 1; Company and Securities Law Journal Vol 37 Pt 8

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