Key areas of focus included law reform in relation to data protection and foreign investment regulation and taxation as well as new laws aimed at protecting critical infrastructure assets and making companies operating in Australia more accountable in some of their business practices and operations ...

Year in Review 2018 discusses some of the key areas of focus in PNG in 2018 Areas of reform in 2018 included capital markets regulation and improving infrastructure through a Public Private Partnership Act encouraging the private sectors interest in working with the Government to develop much-needed ...

The Allens 3D Printing Practice recently held a workshop in Melbourne and Sydney which explored key legal issues arising from 3D printing particularly for the healthcare industry Our Allens panel members - Sarah Matheson Ric Morgan Phil OSullivan Dr Tony Shaw Tracy Lu and Rob Munro - were joined by ...

Online businesses have been booming in Vietnam with the digital economy growing by more than 25 per cent in the past 12 months This rise of the digital economy coupled with regulatory reform has accelerated the uptake and use of e-payment in Vietnam and there has been a sharp increase in foreign ...

There have been significant developments in Australian competition law over the last 12 months, both from a merger review and enforcement perspective. This Insight examines some of the key trends. ...

Both Queensland and Western Australia have mechanisms designed to ensure that in the face of the competing demands of LNG exports adequate gas is available for domestic use Queensland is now looking to go a step further by imposing a condition on identified petroleum authorities to the effect that ...

Proposed changes to the FSC Life Insurance Code designed to improve standards in product design sales underwriting customer service complaints and claim handling are afoot and the deadline for comments is fast approaching ...

Allens has written over the course of this year, the Royal Commission will bring and in fact already has brought monumental changes both in how banks are regulated and to the actual laws that apply ...

The Full Bench of the FWC decided that an employer's decision to summarily dismiss an employee for calling another worker a 'f***ing scab' during protracted industrial disputation was unfair ...

A new Decree coming into effect on 1 February 2019 introduces more relaxed conditions for bond issuance but on the other hand bond issuers will be subject to a more stringent disclosure regime in relation to the bonds they issue Partners Robert Fish and Linh Bui and Associate Dang Vu explain the ...