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What you need to know about the draft Equator Principles 4
This insight explores the potential impact of changes proposed in the consultation draft of Equator Principles 4 which entails a greater focus on climate change, human rights and social risk. ...
A multi-million dollar question – aggregating claims in class actions
The New South Wales Court of Appeal has held in Bank of Queensland Limited v AIG Australia Limited1 that, under the terms of a civil liability insurance policy, each Class Member Registration For ...
Mind your followers' social media manners
In a recent decision, the NSW Supreme Court, found that a company can be considered a publisher of allegedly defamatory comments posted by members of the public on its Facebook page. ...
ASIC's no action position on the wholesale/retail test for self-managed super funds
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has announced that it will take no action where a self-managed superannuation fund trustee is treated as a wholesale client notwithstanding that the trustee does not have to meet the 10 million net asset threshold even though the financial service ...
Food Law Bulletin
we look at the ACCCs current enforcement activities on credence claims in food labelling the development of a national information standard for the contentious area of free-range eggs in light of the industrys failure to selfregulate a Federal Court decision that provides some welcome clarification ...
Running out of time for retirement income reform
The Government has released a consultation paper on the regulation of retirement income streams It says that the Government wants to encourage the development of more retirement products But this is old news and the paper offers few concrete policy proposals other than in the area of deferred ...
Media control and ownership: (re)starting the discussion
A policy background paper on media control and ownership released by the federal Department of Communications aims to restart the discussion on media law reform The paper does not draw conclusions or make recommendations but adopts a deregulatory tone Partner Ian McGill Senior Associate Matt Vitins ...
Introduction of the Emissions Reduction Fund Bill
The Federal Government has introduced into Parliament legislation for the establishment of its proposed Emissions Reduction Fund which will provide businesses with opportunities to enter into contracts under which the Government pays them for undertaking carbon abatement Partner Grant Anderson and ...
ASIC's enforcement decisions - is litigation the most effective deterrent?
We have previously reported on ASICs submission to the Financial System Inquiry FSI and in particular its assertion that it needs a broader range of more onerous financial penalties in order to punish and deter corporate wrongdoing ASIC made similar submissions to the recent inquiry by the Senate ...
Back to a future for employee share scheme options
After talks of introducing a special tax regime for employee options in start-ups, the Federal Government has reverted back to the global norm of employee options granted by all companies generally being taxed on exercise ...