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Contract Law Update 2016
When is a person bound by their e-signature When does a breach of contract constitute a repudiation of that contract When does an exchange of correspondence give rise to a binding contract What is the latest on penalties These were some of the contract law issues considered by appellate courts ...
Mandatory margining
Late last year APRA released the implementation schedule for its long-awaited Prudential Standard CPS 226 Margining and risk mitigation for non-centrally cleared derivatives ...
Plugging the price drip
The Federal Court has found that Jetstar Airways Pty Ltd and Virgin Australia Airlines Pty Ltd contravened the Australian Consumer Law by engaging in drip pricing In doing so the Federal Court differentiated between the types of conduct that will be considered misleading or deceptive under the ACL ...
High Court unanimously finds isolated genetic material not patentable
In the culmination of a hard-fought patent dispute the High Court of Australia has unanimously ruled that Myriad Genetics patent claims to isolated nucleic acid coding for the mutant or polymorphic BRCA1 polypeptide are not valid ...
The beginning of the end of the unit trust's monopoly? A look at corporate CIVs
The Board of Taxations report on tax arrangements applying to collective investment vehicles advocates extending tax neutrality to three additional collective investment vehicles corporates modelled on the Luxembourg SICAV limited partnerships and common contractual funds In this issue we examine ...
Adviser misconduct and client losses - ASIC's views
ASIC has released a consultation paper about client review and remediation programs to address client losses because of adviser misconduct Partners Michelle Levy and Malcolm Stephens look at what ASIC says a licensee should do if they identify systemic misconduct by advisers providing personal ...
Workplace Relations
We look at what reasonable management action is when a complaint will be in relation to employment the personal liability of human resources managers and other senior employees the FWCs approach to dismissals resulting from serious safety breaches and the validity of a safety regulators directive ...
Allens Accelerate: Get ready for the #IdeasBoom!
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has unveiled the hotly awaited National Innovation and Science Agenda NISA The Prime Minister declared the beginning of the Ideas Boom stating that unlike the mining boom this is a boom that can continue forever The NISA comprises more than 20 individual policies and ...
Fact sheet: Crowd-sourced equity funding - can you access it?
The new Turnbull Cabinet has made clear its intention to support innovation so that Australia can have a thriving economy The Treasury has already done some work in this area releasing a consultation paper on crowd-sourcing equity funding CSEF for startups and small business ...
ASIC tweaks employee incentive scheme relief
Various amendments to ASICs employee incentive scheme class order relief have now come into effect Described by ASIC as minor and machinery in nature the clarifications and improvements were prompted in part by market feedback Partner Greg Bosmans looks at the changes ...