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The Financial Accountability Regime (FAR), recently established by the long-awaited Financial Accountability Regime Act 2023 (Cth) (the Act), will come into effect for the banking industry in March 2024, and the superannuation and insurance industries in 2025.

From 9 November 2023, unfair contract terms will no longer simply be found void and courts will have the right to order substantial penalties. Are your consumer and small business contracts compliant?

The following Subtitles are now updated and available on Westlaw: Business Organisations 4.6 “Company Takeovers”; Contracts: Specific 8.2 “Real Estate Agents”; Environment and Natural Resources 14.8 “Cultural Heritage”; Equity 15.5 “Declarations”; Professional Liability 27.6 “Brokers”

Australian Intellectual Property Journal update: Vol 33 Pt 4

Find out what the ACCC, ACMA, OAIC and eSafety (Digital Platform Regulators forum) consider are the key issues for the safe deployment of AI in Australia.

Learn about the key findings from the OAIC's most recent report on Notifiable Data Breaches.

The reforms to the unfair contract terms regime including the introduction of substantial penalties for contraventions come into effect on 9 November 2023. Are your standard form contracts at risk?

Given the departure of Governor Philip Lowe and the commencement of the term of the first woman to head the RBA, Michelle Bullock, it is timely to look at her reform agenda.

New legislation information, case annotations and article references have been added to Commonwealth Statutes Annotations, including a note on Hornsby Shire Council v Commonwealth (2023) 97 ALJR 534; [2023] HCA 19, under sections 96 and 114 of the Constitution.

The Laws of Australia (TLA) has expanded its content with a new Government Subtitle, 19.8 “Military Law”, written by Professor Dale Stephens CSM FAAL and Professor Matthew Stubbs.

Extensive reforms of significance to media and internet businesses have been proposed in the Privacy Act Review Report released in February 2023 (the 2023 Privacy Report). Submissions on the proposals in the report closed on 31 March 2023 and the reform process is likely to continue...

Find out about recent actions by Australian regulators to highlight serious privacy risks arising from the widespread practice of screen scraping.