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Higher penalties for consumer law breaches come into effect
New laws come into effect this week that substantially increase the maximum penalties for contraventions of the Australian Consumer Law The changes were a headline recommendation of the Australian Consumer Law Review and a range of other recommended reforms are currently before Federal Parliament We ...
Making sense of human cell and tissue products regulation
The Therapeutic Goods Administration has released guidance on recent changes to the regulation of human cell and tissue products Special Counsel Ric Morgan and Senior Associate Tracy Lu dissect the complex regulatory framework particularly in relation to advertising ...
New developments in Vietnam's renewable energy sector
Vietnam has revised certain aspects of its laws around wind and solar power The Prime Ministers Decision 39 increases the feed-in tariff for wind power projects to the equivalent of 85 US cents per kWh for onshore and 98 US cents per kWh for offshore and sets the commercial operation date deadline ...
Market-led proposals - still a unique opportunity
Australia has seen a significant increase in market-led proposals for infrastructure projects This is having an important effect on how government interacts with the private sector with all states and territories having released detailed guidance intended to boost these submissions even more Partner ...
Efficiently, honestly and fairly - overarching and fundamental obligations?
In his recent Interim Report into Misconduct in the Banking Superannuation and Financial Services Industry Commissioner Hayne makes a lot of the duties of an Australian financial services licensee and an Australian credit licensee to provide financial services or credit activities as the case may be ...
Royal Commission: Round 1 - experiences with consumer lending practices
In examining the topic of consumer lending the Commission considered issues arising from the sale of credit products ndash including residential mortgages car finance and credit cards - by reference to case studies involving the four major banks as well as Aussie Home Loans and Citi ...
Royal Commission: Round 2 - experiences with financial advice
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 ...
Slater & Gordon begins its superannuation class actions
As predicted in an Insight in 2018, the Financial Services Royal Commission has proved to be a hotbed for class actions. ...
Report: Class Action Risk 2018
Class action risk continues to increase and is becoming more complex than ever before. Assessing this risk for your organisation is extraordinarily challenging and requires a broad-based perspective of the broader class actions landscape. ...