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Laurel Henning

Laurel joined Capital Brief from MLex where she spent a decade covering topics ranging from competition law and data privacy to white collar crime and criminal cartels. She also spent five years in Brussels covering European energy and climate policies.

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The use of non-disclosure agreements in settling employment disputes is facing new levels of scrutiny, but regulatory enforcement is a fraught issue.






Tackling greenwashing has been top of the regulatory to-do list for some time. As corporate use of AI-linked buzzwords increases, lawyers say an AI-washing crackdown could be next.











The US Federal Trade Commission has banned non-compete clauses, and in Australia the federal government is reviewing their use. Are changes coming for Australian employees and competition law?


Jim Chalmers' federal budget seeks to balance a longer-term economic vision with the more politically pressing need to address cost of living pressures. The Capital Brief team dissects what it means for the different sectors in Australia's new economy.









The rapid development of AI, and the push to avoid failures of the past through expedited regulation, may also speed up efforts to pin down legal definitions of the ecosystems in which Big Tech operates.





With its $120 million settlement with Qantas, Gina Cass-Gottlieb's ACCC has avoided a drawn out lawsuit, secured a payout for consumers and, she says, set a new industry standard for flight cancellations.





When it comes to legal action against global tech companies, just how long is the arm of the law? That’s the question facing legal teams on both sides of the eSafety Commissioner’s legal battle against X.




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