Updates & Alerts

Practice Area Pages are now available on Westlaw Australia. These pages pull together all relevant information available on Westlaw relevant to specific Practice Areas.

Ensuring there is honesty in financial services and that companies adequately respond to climate change, are topics featuring large in the current issue of the Company and Securities Law Journal.

“Wage theft” – what it is, its extent, and the practical issues practitioners should consider in pursuing recovery of wages – examined in the latest issue of Workplace Review, Vol 10 No 1.

The following Subtitles are now updated and available on Westlaw AU: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples 1.6 “Civil Justice Issues”; Communications 6.3 “Injurious Falsehood”; Family Law 17.11 “Child Support”; Professional Liability 27.3 “Legal Practitioners”; Revenue Law 31...

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Links to primary law including cases and legislation have undergone a refresh on Practical Law Australia

The following Subtitles are now updated and available on Westlaw AU: Bankruptcy 3.2 “Bankruptcy Administration"; Civil Procedure 5.2 “Pleadings and Amendment”; Family Law 17.4 “Divorce”; Family Law 17.19 “Family Court Orders”; Revenue Law 31.15 “Stamp Duties”; Transport 34.3 “Shipping...

Insight into sections 13, 18, 78, 81, 97, 101, 110, 125, 128A and 137 of the Uniform Evidence Acts with particular reference to competence and the lack of capacity, the right to object to being compelled to give evidence, the exception with regards to lay opinions, the exceptions to...

The following Subtitles are now updated and available on Westlaw AU: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples 1.7 “International Law”; Family Law 17.3 “Marriage and Nullity”; Family Law 17.6 “Status of Children and Parental Rights and Responsibilities”; Family Law 17.12...

This article provides a summary of the temporary changes to the Banking Code of Practice that come into force from 1 July 2020.

Practical Law Banking and Finance recently published a suite of documents to guide practitioners through acquisition financing transactions, including practice notes, checklists and a standard clause.

The following Subtitles are now updated and available on Westlaw AU: Civil Procedure 5.4 “Parties and Joinder”; Family Law 17.14 “Alteration of Property Interests”; Intellectual Property 23.8 “Trade Marks”; Real Property 28.3 “Torrens System – Indefeasibility and Priorities”...