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New legislation information, case annotations and article references have been added to Commonwealth Statutes Annotations, including a note on ASF17 v Commonwealth (2024) 98 ALJR 782; [2024] HCA 19, under sections 189, 196 and 198 of the Migration Act 1958.

Find out which cases Stefani White has selected for reporting in the LGERAs.

Greenwashing is no longer about reusing towels in hotel rooms. It's now attracting deep compliance concerns from ASIC.

Justice Thomas Bradley, appointed to the Supreme Court of Queensland in 2018, will soon trial a novel approach in his court. He will decide costs within the one hearing.

The following Subtitles are now updated and available on Westlaw: Bankruptcy 5.5 “Summary Dismissal, Settlement and Discontinuance”; Evidence 16.1 “General Principles of Evidence”; Family Law 17.10 “Child Welfare”; Insurance and Income Security 22.2 “Superannuation”; Interpretation...

Starting from August 30th, we are improving the way case versions are ordered when a case is reported in multiple report series.

Read Chief Justice Mortimer’s special foreword to Volume 300 of the authorised reports.

The following Subtitles are now updated and available on Westlaw: Bankruptcy 3.17 “Offences”; Criminal Procedure 11.11 “Confiscation of Proceeds of Crime”; Equity 15.11 “Taking Accounts”; Human Rights 21.5 “Work”; Intellectual Property 23.4 Chs 1–4, 6–8; Torts 33.7 “Nuisance”

Significant developments have been announced recently impacting the regulation of banker and customer relationship and methods of preventing money-laundering and terrorism financing.

In the upcoming online release of the Queensland Sentencing Manual, incoming author Matt Jackson, Barrister and Queensland Sentencing Advisory Council Member, discusses key cases R v Liu [2024] QCA 58, R v ZC [2024] QCA 89, R v Brutton [2024] QSC 24 and R v Gordon [2024] QCA 16.

Outgoing Queensland Sentencing Manual author John Robertson hands reins over to Barrister and Queensland Sentencing Advisory Council Member Matt Jackson.

The following Subtitles are now updated and available on Westlaw: Equity 15.7 “Rescission”; Equity 15.8 “Injunctions”; Equity 15.10 “Tracing”; Equity 15.14 “Trustees”; Finance, Banking and Securities 18.10 “Consumer Finance”; Government 19.7 “Practice and Procedure”; Intellectual...