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What do ASIC and APRA want from Murray?
Insight 01 Oct 2014

Although more than 6500 second round submissions have been made to the Financial System Inquiry submissions made by ASIC and APRA will be read with greater interest than most The recommendations in these submissions are likely to be given greater weight by the FSI panel members and could find their ...

Fighting to protect Fintech innovations
Insight 03 Dec 2014

The growth of financial services technology or Fintech as it is now called has exploded in recent years yet many of its creators dont realise that their innovations are patentable ...

Directors' duties and the interests of 'APRA beneficiaries'
Insight 02 Sep 2014

The interim report of the Financial System Inquiry FSI asks whether directors in different parts of the financial system should have different duties ...

Workplace Health & Safety Quarterly
Insight 05 Aug 2014

We look at the circumstances surrounding the prosecution of a business for using hazardous chemicals the courts move to increase penalties for WHS breaches a new monetary threshold for principal contractor duties in Victoria and the growing use of enforceable undertakings as an alternative to ...

The disallowance of the FoFA Streamlining Regulation - what has been missed in all the noise?
Insight 03 Dec 2014

The Senates disallowance of the Corporations Amendment Streamlining Future of Financial Advice Regulation 2014 was messy However the same could be said of the process by which FoFA was originally enacted ...

Federal Court rules liquidator needn't account for tax on sale of assets
Insight 21 Oct 2014

The Full Federal Court has held that a liquidator has no obligation to retain monies on account of tax until a notice of assessment has been issued While the decision is a win for taxpayers and creditors of insolvent entities it remains to be seen how the Commissioner of Taxation will respond ...

Term of mutual trust and confidence not implied into Australian employment contracts
Insight 10 Sep 2014

A landmark High Court decision has determined that a term of mutual trust and confidence is not necessary and should not be implied at law into employment contracts in Australia Special Counsel Eleanor Jewell reports ...

Sensible changes proposed to the Australian taxation of ESS interests
Insight 27 Mar 2015

Sensible changes have been proposed to the taxation of employee share schemes in the new tax legislation before parliament. ...

PNG Budget looks to improve compliance and strengthen revenue base
Insight 19 Nov 2014

The Papua New Guinea Government has delivered its 2015 National Budget which contains a number of amendments to taxation legislation that are part of the Governments efforts to improve compliance and strengthen its revenue base Senior Associate Ryan Warokra reports ...

Royal Commission: Round 2 - experiences with financial advice
Insight 02 Oct 2018

Although the Commissioner says that the Royal Commission is part of the executive and not the judiciary and that he is therefore not able to make any findings of law he comes pretty close in his views in response to Round 2 And in some important respects those views do not correspond with ...

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