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Financial services - landmark High Court ruling on definitions of personal and general product advice

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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.

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...

Judicial Commentary on Migration Act Legislative or Administrative Improvement

These days, hearings by telephone or video link may be essential to the administration of justice, according to WA’s Court of Appeal decision in JKC Australia LNG Pty Ltd v CH2M Hill Companies Ltd.

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Ensuring there is honesty in financial services and that companies adequately respond to climate change, are topics featuring large in the current issue of the Company and Securities Law Journal.

“Wage theft” – what it is, its extent, and the practical issues practitioners should consider in pursuing recovery of wages – examined in the latest issue of Workplace Review, Vol 10 No 1.

Insight into sections 13, 18, 78, 81, 97, 101, 110, 125, 128A and 137 of the Uniform Evidence Acts with particular reference to competence and the lack of capacity, the right to object to being compelled to give evidence, the exception with regards to lay opinions, the exceptions to...