Understanding the New 'Right to Disconnect' Legislation: What Employers and Employees Need to Know
Ellie Bassingthwaighte, Senior Legal Writer- Practical Guidance Employment Introduction of the Right to Disconnect Starting 26 August 2024, Australian employees will gain a new 'right to disconnect' following significant amendments to the Fair Work Act 2009...
Three tips for banking and finance lawyers when responding to an ASIC advertising query
Australian Banking & Finance Law Bulletin subscribers can read the full article here. Introduction From time to time, a credit licensee may receive a “please explain” letter from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) in relation to representations...
Beware of unfair contract terms
Significant increases to competition and consumer law penalties have commenced and sweeping reforms to the unfair contract terms regime will follow in 12 months’ time. Get ready, the ACCC has just been given a much bigger stick! What do these changes mean for...
Alex Mitchell’s Top 5 Tips for Delivering Value as a General Counsel
Alex Mitchell, the Asia Pacific General Counsel at Unisys is an expert writer and contributor for LexisNexis® Practical Guidance. In a recent video interview, Alex detailed his top 5 tips for delivering value as a General Counsel and outlines several great ways...
Lessons from technology: how to compete, co-operate and reinvent your firm for success
No doubt, too many times you’ve been told that your business is about to be disrupted. That innovation, or a particular technology, will change the way the law works and how legal firms make money. That the sky is falling and your days are numbered – the Amazon...
Legal professional privilege: A tale of two judgments
Can common law legal professional privilege truly be claimed over electronic communications? Did the High Court in its Expense Reduction and Glencore decisions give tangible guidance as to how the doctrine of legal professional privilege can provide answers to...
Balancing the risks of new technology: The intersection of technology, risk management, operations and governance
Adopting new technology has risks. Not adopting new technology has risks. How are you balancing them? Leading governance professionals around the world are grappling with how to balance these questions. New perspectives are revealed inside a new LexisNexis whitepaper...
Alerting subscribers from all walks of life
For 30 years, Capital Monitor has alerted subscribers from all walks of life to parliamentary, political, legislative, regulatory and judicial news and information as it happens. When the concept for this service was born in the late 1980’s, and launched as a business...