The penalty implications of legal advice and what makes a firm ‘leading’?
A court finds legal advice from a leading firm can fully mitigate penalties for contraventions of the Corporations Act.
By Matthew Lo - 2 min readA court finds legal advice from a leading firm can fully mitigate penalties for contraventions of the Corporations Act.
By Matthew Lo - 2 min readRecent decision indicates a shift away from the objective of using pooling orders to improve outcomes for creditors, like minimising liquidation costs.
By Emily Barrett, Rachel Zeng and Sivanjali Karalasingham - 2 min readThe Federal Court considers a unique fact scenario which conjures pertinent questions of law, such as what makes a judgement final?
By Tim Maybury - 1 min readWhat trends and themes emerge from the first three greenwashing cases to be considered by the Federal Court?
By Katie Lau and Teresa Torcasio - 2 min readIndonesia’s national airline is found immune from winding up proceedings in Australia in an interesting split judgment by the High Court.
By Pravin Aathreya and Lucy Charleston - 2 min readWhen dealing with family law settlements, practitioners should obtain expert advice on corporate structuring and how to divide property in a tax effective manner.
By Niki Schomberg and Rachell Davey - 2 min readA string of recent cases in the District and Supreme Courts of NSW highlight the importance of legal professional privilege.
By Justin Wong and Aaron Roberts - 2 min readThe High Court recently examined the ‘maximum’ penalty for corporate offending under the Criminal Code and the penalty is not the cost of doing business.
By Richard Harris, Colleen Platford, Antonia Garling, Peter Munro and David Wiseman - 2 min readRecent Court of Appeal decision clarifies who bears the evidentiary onus of establishing loss in combustible cladding disputes.
By Christopher Kerin and Mia Haas - 2 min readA storm of shareholder disputes including claims of oppressive conduct have been brewing. Courts can order appropriate relief if claims are supported by sufficient evidence.
By Evatt Styles - 2 min readThe latest report on the Modern Slavery Act contains a number of potential reforms, which (if implemented) will impose tougher requirements on Australian businesses.
By Heidi Roberts, Dr Phoebe Wynn-Pope and Kaitlyn Wilkins-Fraser - 2 min readLawyers are increasingly being involved in money laundering activities and global organisations have called for the regulation of lawyers under anti-money laundering regimes.
By Dr Doron Goldbarsht and Stuart Clark AM - 9 min readTwo recent cases have considered the illegal phoenix activity provisions enacted at the time of the Covid-19 pandemic.
By Ece Mustafa-Ay and David Grant - 2 min read