Content update

The Cases Team, who create content for Firstpoint on Westlaw, are very proud of the way our Australian Digest classification scheme is designed to be agile and responsive to changes in the legal landscape. Citizenship & Migration is one of our most frequently augmented titles.

Republication of Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing in Australia as Financial Crime Control and Anti-Money Laundering

The following Subtitles are now updated and available on Westlaw AU: Contracts: Specific 8.9 “Electronic Contracts”; Intellectual Property 23.1 “Copyright” (Chs 4–6); Wills and Estate Administration 36.1 “Wills”

Insight into sections 20, 41, 55, 62, 81, 87, 117, 125 and 137 of the Uniform Evidence Acts with particular reference to the Weissensteiner inference, the change to the wording of s 41 of the Victorian Evidence Act regarding improper questions, evidence of post-offence conduct being...

The following Subtitles are now updated and available on Westlaw AU: Labour Law 26.4 “Awards and Workplace Agreements”; Real Property 28.1 “Principles of Real Property”; Real Property 28.12 “Retirement Villages”

FirstPoint update: Health Law incorporating Mental Health new classification scheme

The following Subtitles are now updated and available on Westlaw AU: Equity 15.6 "Specific Performance"; Equity 15.11 "Taking Accounts"; Human Rights 21.7 "Life, Health and Welfare"; Real Property 28.15 "Physical Limits to Land"

Take a look back over the judgments delivered by the High Court of Australia in 2018.

The following Subtitles are now updated and available on Westlaw AU: Update 336: Criminal Sentencing 12.12 "Sentencing of Children"; Real Property 28.10 "Licences"; Revenue Law 31.3 "Income from Property" Update 337: Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders 1.8 "Indigenous Cultural and...

As a continuation of the ongoing enhancement of Quick on Costs the third and final part of the Remedies for Costs Chapter will be released with Update 95 in May 2018.

As a continuation of the ongoing enhancement of Quick on Costs the second part of the Remedies for Costs Chapter was released with Update 94 in December 2017.

Look back over 2017 in the High Court of Australia, a year that saw a new Chief Justice and Justice, and decisions disqualifying members of Parliament for dual citizenship and validating the same-sex marriage postal survey.