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Criminal charges for Victorian long service leave underpayments
This month, the Wage Inspectorate Victoria (WIV) has flexed its muscle by commencing criminal proceedings against subsidiaries of
Significant increases to Competition and Consumer Law penalties proposed
Last Friday afternoon, Treasury released exposure draft legislation proposing significant increases to the maximum penalties that apply to
Did Google get off lightly? ACCC v Google and ACL penalty regime changes
The Federal Court has handed down its penalty decision in Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Google LLC
Australian Carbon Credit Units: Financiers tap into carbon farming and development projects
With the emergence of a thriving carbon credit market in Australia, the banking and finance industry has seen
Cross border insolvencies – Federal Court makes life easier for liquidators and creditors of New Zealand construction company
In Kellow, Re Advanced Building & Construction Ltd (In Liq) v Advanced Building & Construction Ltd (In Liq)
Federal Court takes aim at expert’s ‘independent’ evidence: When lawyers can taint an expert’s report
The case of New Aim Pty Ltd v Leung [2022] FCA 722 concerned a dispute between an e-commerce
Working smarter not harder: How liquidators can expedite the process for adjudicating and admitting claims when winding up a company
In a recent case involving a former financial services provider in liquidation, thousands of pending claims from former
Can a disclaimer retrospectively reduce a trust beneficiary’s taxation liabilities?
The beneficiaries of a trust estate executed disclaimers of income more than two years after the end of
Corruption and Integrity Update | Fitzgerald Report 2.0: Key findings and recommendations
The much-awaited report by the Honourable Tony Fitzgerald AC QC and the Honourable Alan Wilson QC of the
Corruption and Integrity Update – Updates on the Coaldrake Report and corrupt conduct in the Queensland public sector
This month’s edition of the Corruption and Integrity Update provides an update on the implementation of the recommendations
Embedded networks live on as Victorian reform for residential embedded networks slowly takes shape
New embedded networks in residential apartment buildings will be banned from January 2023 unless 100% of electricity is sourced
Directors beware – personal recovery orders made where director’s duties breached
In the matter of Bryve Resources Pty Ltd [2022] NSWSC 647, the Court accepted the liquidator’s evidence of
