Category: News
What are we, smoking? Implications for Pharmacists resulting from new Vaping Reforms
Electronic cigarettes, known as ‘vapes’, have recently challenged paper cigarettes as the go-to nicotine delivery system in popular culture. This is largely because vapes are promoted as exposing users to fewer toxins …
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Indemnity Costs for Defamation Defendants: s 40(2)(b)
When it comes to costs in defamation, we defamation lawyers are acutely aware that successful plaintiffs often recover their costs on an indemnity basis. However, a successful defamation defendant can also use …
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Identifying and Protecting Against Misinformation: An Update on Recently Proposed Legislative Measures and the Importance of Media Literacy
This article was first published in the February 2025 edition of the Law Society of Western Australia’s Brief digital journal. The internet is rife with misinformation and disinformation. The World Economic …
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Bennett Team Featured in February Brief
We’re pleased to share that the latest issue of Brief, the journal of the Law Society of Western Australia, features contributions from several of our Bennett team members: “Identifying and Protecting Against …
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Restraint of Trade Basics in the Employment Context
A restraint of trade is, at its core, a contractual prohibition imposed on former employees to restrict their ability to work in competition with their former employer. As this article will explore, …
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ACCC warns online retailers of potentially misleading statements in website terms and conditions
An ACCC ‘sweep’ of a number of Australian retail websites has uncovered potentially misleading statements in business’ terms and conditions regarding the existence and application of the consumer guarantees provided by the …
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Alert to clients: “Trademark Registry Hub” and “Patents Registry Hub” Scam
As from December 2024, but spiking in early February 2025, business owners in Australia began to receive scam emails on a massive scale, relating to pending, competing trade mark applications. These emails claim …
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A rapidly moving beast: Australian regulatory reforms to tackle ‘greenwashing’ and the lessons we are learning
The latest issue of the International Bar Association’s Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law features commentary by Bennett’s Reid Thornett, co-authored by Michelle Brooks, Michael Tangonan, Tom Webb and Phillipa McCormack. …
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Regulatory Roundup: ASIC’s 2024 focus areas and 2025 enforcement priorities
ASIC recently published its enforcement priorities for 2025. In this article, we examine whether ASIC has met its strategic priorities and objectives in 2024 and which sectors will be impacted by ASIC’s …
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‘OK, boomers’: The potential challenges and risks of imposing a social media minimum age requirement on under-16s
Amidst a flurry of legislation passed by the Senate on the final sitting day of the Federal Parliament for 2024, Australia has become the first jurisdiction in the world to ban access …
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