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Community objections to the controversial expansion of Darling Downs coal mine spawned the longest hearing in Queensland Land Court history, costing millions. But that was just the beginning.

NSW Precedents now have a shortcut to Currency and help information available under Tools and Resources.

The Secondary Sources Library Page is now available on new Westlaw Australia. This landing page is dynamic and allows you to locate specific secondary sources in a number of ways.

Recent cases in the High Court of Australia (and what’s coming up).

Financial services - landmark High Court ruling on definitions of personal and general product advice

You can quickly and easily determine what content is include in your new Westlaw subscription plan by accessing the My Content Page on new Westlaw.

Please be aware that we have identified a bug with The Laws of Australia category page. When users search across the entire publication, the search will run perfectly. This is the sites default behaviour so many users will not have noticed the issue. However if users specify topical...

Unfortunately we have identified a bug with some of these Practice Area pages. When you search the Practice Area page without ticking “Specify content to search” the search will run perfectly. This is the sites default behaviour so you may not have noticed this issue. However for some...

The High Court ruled today that a British subject who arrived in Australia in 1948 can be considered an alien within the meaning of s 51(xix) of the Constitution. Justice Nettle delivered the judgment in Chetcuti v Commonwealth of Australia [2020] HCA 42.

Insight into sections 13, 18, 44, 46, 55, 59, 65, 66, 90, 97, 101, 125, 128A, 131, 164 and the Dictionary of the Uniform Evidence Acts with particular reference to competence and the lack of capacity, compellability in relation to spousal communications, evidence of a representation...

Judicial Commentary on Migration Act Legislative or Administrative Improvement

These days, hearings by telephone or video link may be essential to the administration of justice, according to WA’s Court of Appeal decision in JKC Australia LNG Pty Ltd v CH2M Hill Companies Ltd.