The Queensland Parliament has passed amendments to the states security of payment legislation that aim to address concerns raised by the construction industry about unfairness in the payment claim and adjudication process ...

We look at the inclusion of investor-state arbitration provisions in the recent Korea-Australia Free Trade Agreement and the possible inclusion of such provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership a Singapore Court of Appeal decision that means parties challenging the jurisdiction of a tribunal have ...

While the media has focused on the more sensational recommendations of last weeks Senate report on the Australian Securities and Investments Commission there are a number of other interesting comments and themes that provide some clues about future regulation by the Federal Government surveillance ...

Last week the Mongolian Government released the agenda for the upcoming autumn sitting of parliament The release of the agenda twice annually is always of interest to investors and the autumn 2014 agenda is no exception Partner Igor Bogdanich and Associate Tess Fitzgerald look at what may be of ...

A recent VSC decision has examined the limits on entrepreneurship by securities class action lawyers ...

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has taken another step towards implementing its prudential framework for the supervision of conglomerate groups While it has made some new prudential standards that are specific to conglomerate groups and extended some of its existing standards to such ...

It has been recognised for some time that the domestic corporate bond market constitutes a weak spot in the otherwise robust and deep Australian capital markets The less developed domestic bond market is a distinguishing feature among the leading financial systems and capital markets This was no ...

We look at the circumstances where a court may not grant an injunction to restrain an employee from working with a competitor the Fair Work Commissions position on legal representation a case that helps clarify when restructuring roles will create genuine redundancy whether a gift to employees who ...

Perhaps the most important unanswered question in Australian class action law has been how causation may be established in a shareholder class action After more than a decade of uncertainty the Supreme Court of NSW has ruled that shareholders can prove causation by establishing that the price of the ...

WE report on the new FDA guidelines regarding nutrition information labels for packaged foods sold in the USA. ...