Westlaw Australia

Dr Ian Freckelton AO QC and Professor Anne Twomey AO appointed Officers of the Order of Australia

A brief overview of the Mental Heath and Cognitive Provisions Act 2020 (NSW) and the changes and similarities to the previous the Mental Health (Forensic Provisions) Act 1990.

The Westlaw search results page has been enhanced to show all content types by default and provide the option to set a specific content type as the default results.

Law Report landing pages have been enhanced to provide access to all documents in the publication along with the ability to search the publication or filter the list of documents.

A list of the SA Supreme Court cases set to be published soon in the authorised law reports.

A list of the FCA cases set to be published soon in the authorised law reports.

A roundup of some interesting recent cases from our High Court specialists.

Over the past few months we have been progressively rolling out scope information across new Westlaw.

A brief overview of the Supreme Court (Criminal Appeal) Rules 2021 (NSW) which replace the Criminal Appeal Rules.

The following Subtitles are now updated and available on Westlaw AU: Environment and Natural Resources 14.15 “Space Mining”; Family Law 17.1 “Jurisdiction”; Family Law 17.7 “Parenting Orders and Related Matters”; Family Law 17.9 “Adoption of Children”; Health and Guardianship 20.3...

Insight into sections 4, 16, 26, 55, 59, 66, 69, 79, 81, 91, 97, 98, 101, 129, 131, 137, 140, 141, 165A and 190 of the Uniform Evidence Acts.

A new Chapter on Costs and Ethics authored by Roger Quick deals with three crucial ethical topics important to the practice of the law in Australia.