With ASIC sharpening its focus, this article unpacks the evolving legal landscape of directors’ duties and the rising personal risks for Australian company directors.
By Pamela Hanrahan - 2 min read
How do companies ‘think’? Learn how courts attribute intention, knowledge, and conduct to corporations through systems, agents and evolving legal doctrines.
By Catherine Bembrick, Alexander Vial and Mitchell Donohue - 1 min read
The Full Federal Court’s ruling raises critical questions about legal advice on complex financial product definitions and cryptocurrency regulation.
By Matthew Lo and Sophie Barbour - 2 min read
The importance of limiting retainers for property conveyances.
By Lucy Williams and Milica Vukancic - 2 min read
Continuous disclosure laws – a seismic change in Australian class actions? Or a mere shift in the sand?
By Christine Tran and Tim Stutt - 2 min read
Declaring dividends and other lessons for company directors from Dick Smith Holdings.
By Ross Foreman, Kate Boyd and Jerome Entwisle - 2 min read
The surprising threat to life on earth and the legal and non-legal solutions we need to consider.
By Steven Freeland - 3 min read
What we can learn from the results of the first round of Modern Slavery reporting.
By Dr Phoebe Wynn-Pope and Heidi Roberts - 10 min read
Hutley and Hartford Davis share some of the practical steps directors can take to reduce the likelihood of liability arising from net zero climate change…
By Noel Hutley SC and Sebastian Hartford Davis - 7 min read
The Full Federal Court judgment that rung the death knell for the peak indebtedness rule.
By Michael Baltins and Georgina Overend - 2 min read
The Ever Given may have been dislodged, but the complex legal fallout has only just begun.
By Alexis Cahalan - 3 min read
Discussion of four key areas that require the focus of organisations in order to meet ESG expectations and avoid reputational and financial consequences.
By Dr Phoebe Wynn-Pope, Heidi Roberts and Sophie Uhlhorn - 2 min read
How the pandemic might inform our response to climate change.
By Ballanda Sack, Timothy Allen and Amelia Smillie - 3 min read