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The AI-generated picture becomes clearer: key legal considerations emerging for generative AI developers and their customers
With rapid developments, it is proving increasingly difficult to stay across the full range of implications for the use and regulation of generative AI tools. This Insight is intended to provide an update on the developments in generative. ...
13 recommendations to mitigate risk in sustainability statements and greenwashing
This Insight considers some key emerging trends in ASIC's and the ACCC's enforcement activities around greenwashing and sustainability that will be major themes in 2023. ...
Development of Australia's new Critical Minerals Strategy
The Australian Government has committed to developing a new Critical Minerals Strategy with a view to cementing Australia's position as a global supplier of choice for processed critical minerals, and to unlock its potential as a clean energy superpower. ...
Diversity and inclusion in the boardroom and beyond
Diversity and inclusion (D&I) continues to be an important ESG consideration for companies. In this Insight, we cover some of the key Australian and international D&I-related legal, regulatory and commercial developments. ...
Continuous disclosure obligations in the evolving age of cyberattacks
This Insight examines the growing need for boards and senior management to consider disclosure obligations in the event of an actual or suspected cyber incident—regardless of their significance—as well as the need to apply an ESG lens to cyber resilience. ...
Corporate criminal liability: a guide for boards and senior management
The risk for an organisation of being held liable for criminal activity is high on the agenda for directors, company officers and shareholders alike. Below is a handy overview of where it currently stands in Australia. ...
Everything you need to know about cyber risks, resilience and responsibilities
Organisations today are both blessed and cursed with extraordinary amounts of data. The responsibility for information security and data governance starts and ends with the board and senior management. We offer a handbook to help navigate duties and liabilities and a checklist of questions directors should be asking. ...
Just in time: the full spectrum of amendments to the Security of Critical Infrastructure regime now passed
The final anticipated amendments to the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (Cth) (SOCI Act) have been passed in the nick of time, making their way through the Senate in its last sitting before the 2022 Federal Election. These latest amendments introduce new and enhanced obligations for risk management programs and security respectively, and the concept of ‘systems of national significance’. ...
How to establish and embed leading ESG practices
Assisting boards, senior executives, in-house counsel, sustainability teams, and risk and compliance leaders to act as strategic partners within their organisations as they shape their ESG agenda. ...
ESG activism is growing – what should boards do?
ESG-related interests of stakeholders are impacting the governance arrangements of large listed companies. We look at why this is important for boards, and what steps they can take to mitigate becoming the target of this type of activist campaign. ...