Recent highlights have included State restrictions for COVID-19 impacting trade and commerce and financial assistance available, the international development of cryptocurrency and defamation proceedings by Christian Porter and Erin Molan.

In addition to covering topical news, Alert24 covers media releases, speeches, publications and consultations from every Australian jurisdiction. Information is sourced from regulatory bodies associated with each specialised legal topic including those of the ABA, RBA, ABS, ASIC, APRA, Fair Work Ombudsman, AFP, BOSCAR, etc and are searchable back to 2005.

Recent inclusions are the various regulator’s Corporate Plans for 2021-2022, namely APRA, ASIC and the RBA.

Legislative developments are tracked and reported including Parliamentary papers, reports, Bills, Acts, Regulations and associated information. Recent legislation includes the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2) (Family Law) Rules 2021 (CTH), Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 2) (Bankruptcy) Rules 2021 (CTH) and the Royal Commissions Amendment (Protection of Information) Bill 2021 (CTH).

Court decisions related to each of the 16 specific legal topics are also accessible on a daily basis, categorised by use of the court reported catch words. Where no such catch words is provided, we adopt the Digests’ catch words allocated by our in-house expert lawyers. Further, we provide in depth background articles regarding coming High Court of Australia (HCA) decisions as well as breaking alerts when the decisions are handed down by the court, with a link to the decision.

The most recent HCA decision was Director of Public Prosecutions Reference No 1 of 2019 [2021] HCA 26, where the appeal was dismissed.  Specific sectors of the industry covered include: Administrative Law, Banking & Finance, Bankruptcy & Insolvency, Building & Construction, Commercial Law, Competition & Trade Practices, Contract law, Corporations, Court Practice and Litigation (Civil cases), Criminal Law (criminal law cases, police etc), Family Law, General Practice, Intellectual Property, Media and Communications, Press Gallery (Politics and party-related news), Property, Planning & Environment and Workplace & Employment Law.