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A brief overview of the updated Criminal Court statistics, released by the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, showing the characteristics of NSW Criminal Court finalisations over five years to June 2020.

A brief summary of the Federal Circuit Court of Australia’s 21st Annual Report, focussing on the performance of the Court in the financial year ending 30 June 2020.

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...

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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...