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Directors' duties and the interests of 'APRA beneficiaries'
The interim report of the Financial System Inquiry FSI asks whether directors in different parts of the financial system should have different duties ...
Workplace Health & Safety Quarterly
We look at the circumstances surrounding the prosecution of a business for using hazardous chemicals the courts move to increase penalties for WHS breaches a new monetary threshold for principal contractor duties in Victoria and the growing use of enforceable undertakings as an alternative to ...
Term of mutual trust and confidence not implied into Australian employment contracts
A landmark High Court decision has determined that a term of mutual trust and confidence is not necessary and should not be implied at law into employment contracts in Australia Special Counsel Eleanor Jewell reports ...
Foreign investment changes in Indonesia
Some Indonesian business sectors are closed to foreign investment while others are subject to foreign ownership limits There have been some changes to theseforeign investment restrictions under Indonesias widely anticipated revisedNegative Investment List which became effective on 24 April The ...
Victorian property tax surcharge on foreign purchasers and absentee landowners
The Victorian Government has introduced legislation to impose a 3 per cent stamp duty surcharge on foreign purchasers of residential land and a 05 per cent land tax surcharge on absentee owners of both residential and other land The proposed legislation is very broad and applies to both direct and ...
When is a trust a commercial necessity?
The High Court has held that the proceeds of a forestry investment scheme were not held on trust for the investors by the operators of the scheme. ...
Update strengthens legal avenues for online copyright rights holders
Telecommunications industry body the Communications Alliance has submitted an updated Copyright Notice Scheme to allow rights holders to better use existing legal avenues to defend their rights The updated Notice Scheme resolves a number of issues that were left open when the first draft of the ...
Not quite business as usual - IP Australia takes pragmatic view of Myriad
IP Australia has taken a pragmatic approach to the Myriad decision that will give comfort to Australias biotechnology industry and research organisations that they can continue to carry out biological RD and be able to obtain patent protection for innovation in Australia Partner Dr Trevor Davies ...
WA State Budget - Government responds to economic conditions by significantly widening asset sales program
In its 2015 Budget handed down yesterday the WA Government confirmed the expansion of its asset sales program to manage the states debt In response to the first forecast budget deficit in WA in 15 years a significant new second tranche of assets has been added to the sales program Partners Andrew ...
AIFMD - the future of marketing to European investors
The European Securities and Markets Association has published its initial advice and opinion on the functioning of the marketing passport and national private placement regimes since the implementation of AIFMD and the possibility of extending the marketing passport to non-European fund managers ...