On 21 June 2021, the Ransomware Payments Bill 2021 was introduced into the federal House of Representatives. The Bill would introduce a mandatory reporting requirement for Commonwealth entities, all state and territory agencies, and specified private sector entities that make...

The Local Government and Environmental Reports of Australia is the specialist law reports series that publishes cases concerning local government, planning matters, environmental control, valuation of land, compensation and the powers and duties of statutory authorities. The...

The Industrial Reports are the authorised law reports of the Fair Work Commission, the Industrial Relations Commission (NSW), the Industrial Court (Qld) and the Industrial Relations Commission (Qld) and also report relevant decisions of the High Court, Federal Court, Federal Circuit...

On 1 July 2021, major reforms to the Uniform Defamation Laws commenced in Australia in the states of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory. In line with the agreement of the Council of the Attorneys-General to the Model Defamation...

The following Subtitles are now updated and available on Westlaw AU:

Civil Procedure 5.10 “Limitation of Actions”; Criminal Sentencing 12.1 “Purposes of Sentencing”; Environment and Natural Resources 14.7 “Biodiversity” Chs 1–3; Health and Guardianship 20.1 “Health Rights and...

The Bankruptcy Regulations 1996 were sunsetted on 1 April 2021 and replaced by the Bankruptcy Regulations 2021. The government released the Exposure Draft of the Bankruptcy Regulations 2021 for consultation in January 2021 and considered stakeholder submissions as part of the process...

The latest update to the Australian Commercial Precedents suite involves a complete review of the Intellectual Property Licensing Precedents by our newly commissioned authors Luke Dale and Niomi Abeywardena of HWL Ebsworth Adelaide.