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The following Subtitles are now updated and available on New Westlaw: Business Organisations 4.2 “Company Management”; Civil Procedure 5.11 “Private International Law”; Equity 15.2 “Fiduciaries”; Equity 15.3 “Contribution, Subrogation and Marshalling”; Finance, Banking and Securities...

A report into whether Victoria’s Supreme Court should continue to use the Scale of Costs in fixing party/party litigious costs has rejected the concept of retaining or revising it.

New legislation information and case annotations have been added to Commonwealth Statutes Annotations, including a note on Tu'uta Katoa v Minister for Immigration, Citizenship, Migrant Services and Multicultural Affairs [2022] HCA 28, under section 477A of the Migration Act 1958.

Browsing case documents has become much easier.

Victor Kline looks at an important and novel decision recently reported in the authorised FCRs: Bazzi v Dutton

Victor Kline looks at an important and novel decision recently reported in the authorised FCRs: Commissioner of Patents v Thaler

The latest decisions from the High Court of Australia, reviewed by our team of ALJR reporters…

Section-level currency dates and future notes added to Australian legislation on new Westlaw Australia.

The following Subtitles are now updated and available on Westlaw: Administrative Law 2.8 “Royal Commissions and Public Inquiries”; Civil Procedure 5.10 “Limitation of Actions”; Insurance and Income Security 22.1 “Insurance”

Thomson Reuters congratulates Sam Vandongen SC on his new judicial role.

In the wake of recent serious data breaches in Australia, the Federal government has introduced a bill amending the Privacy Act 1988, the Australian Information Commissioner Act 2010 and the Australian Communications and Media Authority Act 2005 to increase penalties up to 50 million.