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The ACCC will be watching you pass on the bucks
Insight 14 Apr 2016

The ACCC has been given powers to monitor and enforce compliance with new laws prohibiting merchants from charging excessive payment surcharges Partner Carolyn Oddie Associate Theodore Souris and Lawyer Emma Gorrie report ...

'Chain of Responsibility' amendments impose new environmental obligations in Queensland
Insight 28 Apr 2016

The Queensland Parliament has passed the Chain of Responsibility Bill with important amendments prior to enactment The amending Act establishes a new regime under the States primary environmental legislation that exposes related bodies corporate executive officers financiers shareholders and a ...

Diverted Profits Tax
Insight 13 May 2016

Among other measures designed to combat multinational tax avoidance contained in the 2016-17 Budget is the intended introduction of an Australian Diverted Profits Tax DPT This will broadly replicate the second limb of the existing United Kingdom DPT It will address profit shifting by Australian ...

Full Federal Court blocks US depositions for Australian class action
Insight 18 Apr 2016

The Full Federal Court has ordered an anti-suit injunction against the applicant and a group member in the Treasury Wine Estates shareholder class action preventing the taking of oral depositions from US-based employees under US court procedures Partner Duncan Travis and Associate Michela Agnoletti ...

NSW to go it alone on a tort of privacy?
Insight 11 Mar 2016

A New South Wales legislative committee has released a report following an inquiry into remedies for serious invasions of privacy in New South Wales In an unexpected and controversial move the report recommends that the NSW Government take the lead by introducing a statutory cause of action for ...

Life insurance remuneration draft regulations released
Insight 13 Apr 2016

The Government has released an exposure draft of the Corporations Amendment Life Insurance Remuneration Arrangements Regulations 2016 The draft regulations provide some further detail to support the implementation of the Corporations Amendment Life Insurance Remuneration Arrangements Bill 2016 which ...

Allens Accelerate: 2016 Budget summary: startup hits and misses
Insight 06 May 2016

Allens has looked at the Budget handed down by the Turnbull Government this week and identified the hits and misses for Australian startups Overall the measures targeted at the startup and innovation sector have mostly been amendments and improvements to existing legislation and previously announced ...

Raising professional standards of financial advisers
Insight 05 Feb 2016

Following on from the reviews conducted by the Parliamentary Joint Committee and the Financial System Inquiry the Government delivered on its promises by releasing an exposure draft of the Corporations Amendment Professional Standards of Financial Advisers Bill 2015 the Bill late last year for ...

Review into four major banks - money for consultants?
Insight 25 Nov 2016

The Parliamentary Economics Committee released its report following its review into Australias four major banks yesterday Our Financial Services Regulation team has a look at the recommendations in this update ...

Privilege during class action investigations - no client required
Insight 02 Sep 2016

Our recently released Class Action Risk 2016 report highlights the effect of lawyer and funder entrepreneurialism on the class action landscape Last weeks decision in the ongoing confidentiality dispute between IOOF Holdings Limited and Maurice Blackburn has provided a rare insight into the way ...

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