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Draft decree details regulatory framework for sea survey rights
The latest draft regulations dealing with allocation of sea areas for marine resource exploitation and use are of keen interest to the many potential investors in Vietnam's nascent offshore wind power industry, whose applications to survey sea areas have been pending new legislation for over a year. ...
Balancing act: establishing and preserving legal professional privilege in a cyber incident
This guide has been designed to assist companies incorporate legal professional privilege preservation measures into their cyber readiness activities. ...
Are data breaches a money laundering and terrorism financing risk?
The Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre has published new guidance recommending that reporting entities assess the potential impact of data breaches on the money laundering and terrorism financing risks they face. In this Insight, we explain the new guidance and what it means. ...
Australian infrastructure Investment Report 2023
The current state of Australia's infrastructure market as appetite for investment in the energy transition reaches new heights. ...
Optus decision highlights challenges for privilege claims over investigation reports
Optus decision highlights challenges for privilege claims over investigation reports. ...
Agriculture, food and beverage sector - M&A and governance update
Despite a more cautious market in 2023, M&A in the agricultural, food and beverage sector has proven resilient. In this Insight, we delve into some ongoing trends shaping it, as well as giving a quick snapshot of Australia's proposed mandatory climate disclosure regime. ...
Constitutional cloud cast by High Court over state taxes affecting goods: Vanderstock and the future of federal-state taxation powers
In its recent decision of Vanderstock v Victoria, the High Court has ruled by a 4:3 majority that the Victorian electric vehicle road user charge is unconstitutional. ...
Corporate trustees: no fiduciary duty owed by a successor trustee to its predecessor
A recent New South Wales Court of Appeal judgment has resolved a difficult question concerning the law of corporate trustees, and serves as a practical reminder of the difficulties faced, in particular, by insolvency practitioners appointed to insolvent former trustees. ...
TNFD Recommendations to prompt a step change in nature risk management and disclosure
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures recommendations (the TNFD Recommendations) provide a means to standardise nature-related risk management and reporting, and to capitalise on nature-related opportunities. ...
The National Anti-Corruption Commission in action
New anti-corruption watchdog, the National Anti-Corruption Commission (the NACC), has now been operating for 100 days, and has already received more than 1200 referrals and opened three investigations ...