APRA is seeking to improve the role of the Appointed Actuary in general and life insurance companies and has proposed some reforms in a discussion paper released earlier this year ...

Because biosimilars and their reference biologic medicine are not identical whether compared to each other or even between biosimilars it is important to know which product has been used ...

This series of articles is directed towards the part of biotech that is pharmaceutical rather than diagnostic or bioengineering technologies and in particular towards biologic medicines ...

For a long time now superannuation lawyers have tried to work out the meaning of the following words a beneficiarys right or claim to accrued benefits and the amount of those accrued benefits must not be altered adversely to the beneficiary by amendment of the governing rules or by any other act ...

The main Prime Trust appeal judgement is relatively well known but a trusts responsible entities and their officers should look at what the appeal court had to say on other related matters ...

The NSW Government has released a proposal to amend the state environmental planning policy governing the assessment of mining proposals to remove the requirement that the principal consideration be the significance of the resource and economic benefits of developing the resource Partner Bill ...

In an eagerly awaited appeal decision in emRPL Central v The Commissioner of Patentsem the Full Federal Court has decided that the evidence-gathering method the subject of RPL Centrals innovation patent was a mere scheme abstract idea or business method that did not constitute patentable subject ...

The Governments response to the FSIs superannuation recommendations is as with much of the rest of the responses somewhat safe and as a result arguably disappointing As with the Inquirys recommendations it shifts from the sublime to the ridiculous ndash on the one hand it deals with the really ...

The Palaszczuk Governments first state Budget has announced a suite of new initiatives to attract new startups and support existing enterprises The Government has declared it wants Queensland to become a global innovation hub and a smarter state by supporting emerging talent and nurturing innovative ...

The UKs Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority released rules in June this year to further tighten what are already fairly onerous restrictions on the payment of bonuses to staff in banks building societies and certain big investment firms The worlds financial regulators ...