Legal

Chief Justice John Roberts stayed a preliminary injunction on 21 August 2026, allowing above-ground construction of a 90,000-square-foot State Ballroom at the White House East Wing to proceed pending further order of the Supreme Court.

Australia's privacy framework is due for a meaningful overhaul. The Albanese Government released an exposure draft of the Privacy Amendment (Personal Data Protection) Bill 2026 on 31 August, targeting risks that have outpaced the existing Privacy Act 1988, specifically artificial intelligence and

Sony Music Publishing (US) LLC and Warner Chappell Music filed a complaint in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on 28 August 2026, naming Anthropic PBC, chief executive Dario Amodei, and co-founder Benjamin Mann as defendants. Case No.

Jacqueline Henderson and her company Henderson Media Pty Ltd filed a Statement of Claim in the Federal Court on 19 June 2026, seeking at least $82.25 million in compensation under section 340 of the Fair Work Act 2009 and for repudiation of her 10-year Broadcast Services Agreement.

Three new subclauses of the Australian Privacy Principles will reshape how covered organisations write their privacy policies.

Australia's Franchising Code of Conduct has regulated the relationship between franchisors and franchisees since 1993, sitting beneath the Competition and Consumer Act 2010.

Businesses that reuse their own template agreements now face penalties running to tens of millions of dollars for a single unfair term, which the law treats as unlawful rather than merely unenforceable.

Brazil's federal police have formally accused 16 current and former Voepass employees, the airline's owner among them, over the ATR 72-500 crash that killed all 62 people on board.