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Practical Law has published a new Practice note on Australia's new merger control regime, including important pointers for deal terms. Further practice notes providing more detailed guidance on the new regime will be published in coming weeks.

Practical Law has published a new Practice note on the new statutory tort for serious invasions of privacy, which commenced on 10 June 2025.

Bill Lane provided updated the commentary in the chapter on Judicial Review Act 1991.

New legislation information, case annotations and article references have been added to Commonwealth Statutes Annotations, including a note on Minister for Immigration, Citizenship and Multicultural Affairs v Park (2024) 305 FCR 317; [2024] FCAFC 136 under s 66 of the Migration Act...

The June 2025 update to Robson’s Annotated Corporations Legislation included significant updates by Vicki Bell to annotations on Chapter 9 of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) following important judgments on whistleblower protection and on jurisdiction and procedure of Courts.

Roger Quick provided new chapter on Online Courts. The chapter focuses on investments made by the governments in England and Wales in an unprecedented modernisation of physical courts and the design and creation of an online court for online resolution of minor civil disputes.

In this update for Magistrates Court Practice, Dr. Andrew Cannon provides new commentary in the chapters The Stages of An Action and New Developments.

Gerard Nash, John Leung and Sandra Karabidian provided new and updated commentary in Orders 26-40, 57–63A, 64–85 and Supreme Court (Miscellaneous Civil Proceedings) Rules 2018.

In this update, Lawrie Groom incorporates new material and updates existing commentary in Local Government Act 1993 relating to power of councils to finance litigation, role of councillors, body politic, relevant statutory time limit, and status of a statutory charge.

Significant updates to annotations following Court and Tribunal decisions on target market determinations for financial products and services to ensure that financial services providers have a customer-centric approach

A controversial new topic has been introduced to the Uniform Civil Procedure Rules 2005 (NSW). The Rules have been updated to regulate the use of generative artificial intelligence in the courts.