Insights for February 2022

03/02/2022 - "Artistic licence" in concerns notice destroys settlement in defamation claim 03/02/2022 - Advertisers beware! New changes set to shake up Australian therapeutic goods advertising 03/02/2022 - Draft National E-Waste Stewardship Strategy: too good to waste 03/02/2022 - Environment and Planning 5 Minute Fix 22: ERF, renewables, circular economy, planning 03/02/2022 - Federal Court resolves "legitimate uncertainty" in uncontested trade mark appeals 03/02/2022 - How much is your privacy worth? Assessing compensation for breaches of the Privacy Act 03/02/2022 - No dice: high roller fails to quash parallel proceedings 03/02/2022 - Proposed Regulation clarifies energy from waste opportunities in NSW 03/02/2022 - Queensland Government requires ICT suppliers to meet new ethical, environmental and social standards 03/02/2022 - Too little too late to challenge findings of misleading conduct over financial products 03/02/2022 - Triviality vs serious harm: two very different approaches to skinning the defamation cat 03/02/2022 - Foreign investment threshold reduced to 10% for expanded list of Australian businesses deemed to be "critical" 11/02/2022 - The terms of the contract are decisive of the employee/contractor issue – with some provisos, says High Court 16/02/2022 - FAR Bill receives endorsement to proceed 17/02/2022 - Blurring fact and opinion – the complexities of the honest opinion defence to defamation claims 17/02/2022 - Contracting better to avoid the rule against fettering 17/02/2022 - Copyright and common sense: draft Copyright Act reforms to keep up with an increasingly digital age 17/02/2022 - COVID-19 vaccination: booster shot advice may affect employer vaccination policies, but no one-size-fits-all solution 17/02/2022 - Federal Parliament passes permanent Corporations Act reforms allowing electronic execution of documents 17/02/2022 - Illegal boycott agreements between companies and unions under close scrutiny 17/02/2022 - Major changes to NSW land rezoning process proposed 17/02/2022 - Major Projects & Construction 5 Minute Fix 92: electronic document execution, top 5 construction law issues, payment claims 17/02/2022 - Mining company Kepco fails to convince High Court to hear Scope 3 test case 17/02/2022 - NSW Strata renewals: process and opportunities 17/02/2022 - Omnichannel retail: continuing challenges for anti-trust authorities 25/02/2022 - Australia's extensive sanctions response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine: consequences for Australian entities