With the rapid move to mandatory use of an electronic lodgement network for a large number of property settlements, a working knowledge of the ever changing landscape of e-conveyancing is essential for real estate lawyers. To transact electronically, you require an up-to-date understanding of the Model Participation Rules, and Verification of Identity (VOI) and Client Authorisation requirements.

This toolkit provides a collection of practical resources to help you tackle complex e-conveyancing transactions, including:

• Practice note: Electronic conveyancing
• Checklist: Verification of identity (VOI)
• Standard document: Identifier declaration (NSW)

The NDB scheme means that businesses need to update their data breach response plans to include steps to assess whether a data breach requires notification, and if so, to make those notifications promptly. How businesses respond to, and manage, data breach incidents will now be highly visible, so legal advisers need to be up-to-date on the latest legal position and developments in best practice.

This Practical Law Australia Commercial toolkit provides you with the tools and resources you need to respond to a data incident quickly and with confidence.

• Practice note: Responding to a data breach incident
• Practice note: Notifiable Data Breaches scheme
• Checklist: Steps to take if a data breach incident occurs
• Standard document: Letter notifying affected individuals of a data breach (relating to personal information)

Parties to financing transactions often rely on set-off to reduce their credit exposure to their counterparties. However, set-off is a complex and often misunderstood area of the law. One complexity is that set-off rights can arise under common law, equity, statute or contract. Each different type of set-off can only be exercised under specific circumstances and has its own peculiar rules. To add to the veil of confusion, these different types of set-off are commonly referred to by different names.

This Practical Law Australia Banking and Finance toolkit provides you with a collection of practical resources on the use of set-off in financing transactions.

For large and small business, supply and refusal to supply is a critical issue. SMEs and larger businesses often have issues with access to necessary inputs or services, or the terms of supply required, to enable them to supply and compete effectively. Large businesses often face challenges deciding when it is legitimate and legal to refuse access to or the supply of their products or services. Consumers are often affected by supply chain issues.

This Practical Law Australia Competition and Consumer Protection toolkit provides resources to assist lawyers to identify when refusal to deal may be illegal or risk contravention of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 or Australian Consumer Law.

According to the Global Slavery Index, 45.8 million people around the world are trapped in modern slavery. Increasingly, consumers and governments are looking to the corporate sector to do more to tackle this international problem.

This Practical Law Australia Commercial toolkit provides a collection of practical know-how resources that will help lawyers understand and advise on how organisations are responding to the global problem of modern slavery.

Litigation is expensive and time consuming, and is sometimes pursued by parties who lack the resources or inclination to pay the other side's costs if they lose.

This toolkit provides know-how resources to enable a respondent to test the means and resolve of a claimant, obtain some security for the costs incurred in the litigation, and prevent the claim proceeding if that security is not provided, including:

• Practice note: Security for Costs
• Standard document: Application for security for costs
• Standard document: Lawyer's affidavit to support application

The law around post-employment obligations and restraints involves multiple considerations for employers seeking to place limits on their employees' future ventures.

This toolkit provides a collection of practical know-how resources to help you navigate the complexities of post-employment obligations, including:

• Practice note: Confidentiality
• Precedent: Letter to former employee about post-employment obligations
• Checklist: Checklist of information needed to draft an effective restraint of trade

A company's directors are responsible for the management and operation of its business affairs, including its operating structure and strategic direction. It is important that directors are properly appointed and that the company is clear at all times as to who is validly appointed as a director.

This toolkit provides the practical know-how resources necessary to effect an appointment of an additional director to an existing board, including:

• Practice note: Appointment of directors
• Standard document: Consent to act as a company director
• Standard document: Board minutes: appointment of directors

Whenever parties enter into an agreement for the sale and purchase of shares in a proprietary or unlisted company, whether for a minority holding or for the company's entire issued share capital, completion of the transaction will involve a transfer of the relevant shares.

This toolkit provides a collection of practical know-how resources that explain the share transfer process and help lawyers to ensure that they fulfil the relevant legal and process requirements, including:

• Practice note: Transfer of shares
• Checklist: Approving and registering a transfer of shares
• Standard document: Board minutes: transfer of shares