Case law

Mining union’s bid to leave CFMMEU and final determinations in Casual Terms Award Review – these and other industrial cases are soon to be published in the law reports.

Practical Law Commercial have released a new resource, Legal Update, QAD Inc v Shepparton Partners Collective Operations Pty Ltd (sale of business, software licensing and copyright infringement).

Commonwealth Statute Annotations: November 2021 Update

New annotations have been added to Commonwealth Statutes Annotations, including a note on LibertyWorks Inc v Commonwealth [2021] FCAFC 90, under s 60 of the Biosecurity Act 2015

Which criminal cases have been published in the latest parts? Find out here, with a list of the reported cases now available on Westlaw Australia.

We have made further improvements to browsing law reports by volume.

Which cases have been published in the latest parts of these authorised law reports? Find out here, with a list of the reported cases now available on Westlaw Australia.

Which cases have been published in the latest parts? Find out here, with a list of the reported cases now available on Westlaw Australia.

FIND by Citation has been enhanced on new Westlaw and is now even easier to use.

On 8 September 2021, the High Court in Fairfax Media Publications Pty Ltd v Voller [2021] HCA 27 dismissed an appeal by several Australian media outlets, finding they were publishers of allegedly defamatory third-party comments on their Facebook pages.