Updates & Alerts

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.

We are happy to advise that Westlaw now supports Full Text Doument Format for Westclip Alerts and Publication Alerts.

Navigating different versions of a case has become much easier.

Eugene Chan from New Chambers in Sydney has extensively revised annotations to Part 5.1 (Arrangements and reconstructions) of Chapter 5 (External administration) of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) in Robson's Annotated Corporations Legislation. Eugene’s revisions to Parts 5.8, 5.8A...

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?

Professor Juliette Overland from the University of Sydney and Professor Michael Legg from the University of New South Wales have joined the team of contributors in Robson’s Annotated Corporations Legislation.

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?

In response to your feedback and to align with other Westlaw products, we have removed International Materials from Westlaw New Zealand.