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Whistleblowing systems form part of a company’s corporate governance and risk management profile, so compliance with the new laws is a top priority and an area of key concern.
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Targeting Whistleblowers: How the Pursuit of Individuals Will Affect the New Regulatory Regime
Controversial legal cases in Australia against whistleblowers and the associated raids on media outlets have had a detrimental effect on the country’s whistleblowing regime, according to two-thirds of participants in…
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Webinar: The Future of Legal Professional Privilege
The recent High Court case, Glencore v The Commissioner of Taxation, has attracted attention from the entire legal profession, both the law firm and corporate counsel side. In The Future…
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Webinar: Corporate Compliance in the Whistleblowing Era
Australia’s corporate whistleblowing regime is set to ramp up from January 2020 with a new focus on supervision and enforcement, a Thomson Reuters webinar has heard.
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5 Cases We’re Talking About Halfway Through 2019
Our courts have dropped multiple high-profile decisions this year. So hold on to your practising certificates (if you’ve still got them); these are the most talked about cases in the first half of 2019!
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Ipso Facto Provisions Commenced on 1 July 2018: Are You Ready to Advise Affected Clients? [Legal Update]
From 1 July 2018, new provisions introduced into the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (CA 2001) by the Treasury Laws Amendment (2017 Enterprise Incentives No 2) Act 2017 (Cth), impose a…
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Rush for Vindication: Nationwide News Pty Limited v Rush [2018] FCAFC 70
Geoffrey Rush has thwarted Nationwide News and Moran’s defences to his defamation action a third and final time, with the Full Court rejecting Nationwide News and Moran’s application for leave…
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Searching for Search Engine Liability: High Court Grants Special Leave in Trkulja v Google Inc [2017] HCATrans 129
The liability in defamation of search engines for search engine results or autocomplete predictions has been re-enlivened, with the High Court agreeing on 16 June 2017 to grant the plaintiff…
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Federal Government Introduces Key Insolvency Law Reforms
The Federal Government has released draft legislation for the long-anticipated reform of Australia’s insolvency laws with the proposed introduction of: a safe harbour for directors from personal liability for insolvent…
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A Weaker Immune System: Advocate’s Immunity from Suit does not Protect Negligent Advice on Settlement
On 29 March 2017, the High Court in Kendirjian v Lepore [2017] HCA 13 upheld a narrower scope of the common law doctrine of an advocate’s immunity from suit, holding…
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