social media

• Crackdown on social media influencers who fail to disclose payments

  27th Jul 2023

  Christopher Morris discusses the ACCC’s crackdown on ‘the ever-increasing number of manipulative marketing techniques on social media, designed to exploit or pressure consumers into purchasing goods or services’, with reference to Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Employsure Pty Ltd.

• Do defamation laws need to be updated in the digital age? (part 2)

  23rd Jul 2020

  In the second part of this two-part series, Richard Bradshaw and Caitlin Walkington cover the common distinct features of online publications and what changes should be made to defamation laws.

• Do defamation laws need to be updated in the digital age? (part 1)

  16th Jul 2020

  Social media and the use of the internet have evolved in a manner that neither the legislators nor the courts could have foreseen, allowing defamatory material to be published and accessed in unprecedented ways.

  In the first part of this two-part series, Richard Bradshaw and Caitlin Walkington cover who is a 'publisher' in the digital age and the differences between primary and secondary publishers.

• How social media affects compensation claims

  5th Sep 2019

  Stephen Firth provides some valuable insights into the 'dos and don'ts' of social media use by clients in compensation cases.

• Photography and the law – when is it illegal to take a photo?

  9th May 2019

  Geoff Baldwin explores the rapidly changing nature and capabilities of modern photography and the laws surrounding it.

• Defamation actions: the high cost of social media posts, comments and ‘likes’

  24th May 2018

  Seeking restitution for defamation in a world of social media.