Updates & Alerts

The first quarter of the year has brought a flurry of new judicial appointments. Find out who's new on the bench with legal editors Anna Lark and Amila Perera.

Practical Law Corporate has published four new documents to its public mergers and acquisitions topic.

Electronic document execution is here to stay and Practical Law has all the tools subscribers need to leverage the new execution options quickly and confidently.

Corporate collective investment vehicles are aimed at enhancing the competitiveness of the Australia funds management sector for foreign investors.

Practical Law Australia In-house has published a new legal update on the amendments to the Legal Profession Uniform Law Australian Solicitors' Conduct Rules 2015 to commence on 1 April 2022.

The upcoming March Patent Law in Australia online service release covers discussions of the following cases: Commissioner of Patents v Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Ltd [2021] FCAFC 202; Vehicle Monitoring Systems Pty Ltd v SARB Management Group Pty Ltd [2021] FCAFC 224...

Practical Law Commercial has published a new Legal update, Senate releases report on Australian manufacturing industry: growth in manufacturing key to strong economy.

Practical Law Commercial has released two brand new resources: a legal update on the proposed reforms to the unfair contract terms regime introduced in Parliament on 9 February 2022 and a legislation tracker which monitors key developments in the proposed legislation.

Shareholders, litigation funders and class actions promoters are set to benefit from the long-awaited High Court decision in litigation involving the former mining company Arrium Ltd.

Practical Law Commercial has released a brand new resource, Legal update: Sportsbet to pay $3.7 million in penalties and refunds for alleged contraventions of the Spam Act.

Thomson Reuters is delighted to announce that the highly esteemed Dr. Elisabeth Peden SC is the new editor for the extensively revised Australian Law of Contract, previously Heydon on Contract.

On 23 January 2022, the Online Safety Act 2021 (Cth) (OSA 2021) and the Online Safety (Transitional Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Act 2021 (Cth) ) (OSTPCAA 2021) commenced. The new legislation introduces wide-ranging and significant reforms to Australia’s online safety.