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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.

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...

Dr Andrew Cannon discusses Supplementary Gazette No 41 of 18 May 2020 and the commencement of the new Uniform Civil Rules 2020 as well as the COVID-19 Emergency Response (Commercial Leases No 2) Regulations 2020.

A new ACP module - Mergers and acquisitions - available for subscribers

Insight into sections 46, 59, 71, 79, 90, 118, 122, 125, 138, 146 and 161 of the Uniform Evidence Acts with particular reference to the exclusion of hearsay evidence, electronic communications being admissible as hearsay evidence, opinions based on specialised knowledge, the...

Thomson Reuters offers our sincere condolences to the Fogg family on the recent passing of Professor Emeritus Alan Fogg

Dr Andrew Cannon discusses the effect of the COVID-19 Emergency Response Act 2020 on commercial and residential tenancies