The Standing Committee of Attorneys-General has announced a uniform approach to statutory declarations. The move will attempt to redress the fragmentation of the current system, which has different ...
New laws allowing digital statutory declarations will make it easy to apply online for a raft of federal services such as passport renewals, Australian visas, health services, election enrolment, ...
One of the last vestiges of centuries of paper and ink has finally fallen, after federal attorney-general Mark Dreyfus wrote into law the permanent ability to use digital execution, electronic ...
Digital statutory declarations were adopted in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The changes, now made permanent, impact a range of visa applicants including worker, student and partner visas. The ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. After hundreds of years, ink signatures on paper are set to go the way of the wax seal. Commonwealth statutory declarations will ...
TWO sitting councillors and a former councillor have found themselves in trouble with the law over their failure to file their statutory declarations with the Integrity Commission (IC), and/or their ...
The Standards in Public Office Act 2001 has introduced a tax clearance requirement for members of the Dail and Seanad, senior public officials and candidates for appointments to the judiciary. As well ...
AJ Park explores a recent case which emphasises the importance of submitting reliable evidence in invalidation proceedings, even where proceedings are undefended In Leiying Zhu v Shanghai Yunzheng ...