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Court clears Vodafone/TPG merger
Allens acted for Vodafone Hutchison Australia Pty Limited to secure the Federal Court's approval for its merger with TPG Telecom Limited. In finding against the ACCC, Justice Middleton held the merger would not have the likely effect of substantially lessening competition. ...
Nucleus corporate law developments: ASIC to sample whistleblower policies; indexation of FIRB screening thresholds; Vodafone/TPG merger cleared in Federal Court; ACCC to commence home loan pricing inquiry; and other corporate law developments
Nucleus corporate law developments: ASIC to sample whistleblower policies; indexation of FIRB screening thresholds; Vodafone/TPG merger cleared in Federal Court; ACCC to commence home loan pricing inquiry; and other corporate law developments ...
Australian Human Rights Commission proposes mandatory human rights approach for artificial intelligence
The Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has published a discussion paper on proposals to legislate for a human rights approach to artificial intelligence (AI) systems. If adopted by the Australi ...
Consumer Data Right Rules – what do the changes mean for you?
As part of the CDR rollout, as of 6 February 2020 the Big 4 banks are now required to disclose certain types of product data following a request, with the first types of consumer data to be shared from 1 July 2020. ...
Connected infrastructure
Both the Sydney population and the population of Melbourne are expected to reach the size of New York City by 2050, raising questions about how our cities of the future will function. ...
New APRA prudential standard raises bar for information security obligations and incident notification requirements
As companies and regulators across the world grapple with ever-increasing cyber security threats, Australia's financial services regulator, APRA, has released the final form of a new prudential standard, which imposes heigtened security obligations for APRA-regulated entities ...
Measuring ‘spilt milk’
Can food and beverage industry participants be found to have engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct for failure to comply with aspects of relevant regulatory regimes? The Federal Court has confirmed that they can. ...
Troubled waters
A recent Federal Court decision demonstrates the difficulties large offshore food and beverage brands may encounter when attempting to enter the Australian market, particularly where there is a longstanding local user of the same or a similar mark ...
ACCC releases draft Consumer Data Right Rules for consultation
In preparation for the implementation of the first phase of the Consumer Data Right on 1 July 2019 the ACCC has released draft CDR Rules for consultation The draft rules detail how the CDR will function across all designated sectors in practice including how data is to be shared the criteria for ...
Revised Banking Code of Practice, innovation at the ASX and other corporate law developments
Revised Banking Code of Practice; innovation at the ASX; and other corporate law developments. ...