Practical Law Australia Advisory Board Member, Rachel Launders, shares some insights into issues that commonly arise when negotiating and drafting share purchase agreements. These issues are worth considering when you…
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Drafting a Successful Shareholders’ Agreement
Practical Law Australia Advisory Board Member, Rachel Launders, shares some lessons she’s learnt over the years, sometimes the hard way, from transactions she has worked on involving shareholders’ agreements. For…
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2017 ACCC Enforcement Priorities: Onwards and Upwards with Penalties
On 24 February the Chairman of the ACCC launched its 2017 Compliance and Enforcement Policy which identifies the industries and issues it will focus on in the year ahead. Enforcement…
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Electronic Discovery in Court Proceedings: Friend or Foe?
The disclosure of all relevant documents has traditionally been treated as a right of the parties to the litigation, but Australian courts have increasingly placed limits on that right. The…
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Flight Centre’s High Court Loss: Lessons for Principals, Agents and Consumers
When Flight Centre, Australia’s largest travel agent, tried to protect its revenue from the sale of airline tickets for Singapore Airlines, MAS and Emirates, it could not have imagined that…
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Misuse of Market Power: What Do the Changes Mean?
Lately, it seems that everyone has an opinion on the proposed changes to section 46 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (CCA). Most agree that we need a law…
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ACCC Maintains the Focus on Cartels
In late February, ACCC Chairman Rod Sims outlined the regulator’s competition law priorities for 2016. The release may have been somewhat lost in the media interest storm surrounding the Government’s…
Read moreCompetition Debate Must Move Beyond Effects Test Battle
Leaders of the world’s competition agencies recently met in Sydney at the 2015 International Competition Network Annual Meeting. Their agenda included grappling with inconsistent tests for dealing with unacceptable market…
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Australian Fair Work Commission Anti-Bullying Report
The Fair Work Commission’s (Commission) anti-bullying jurisdiction commenced on 1 January 2014. The new jurisdiction empowers the Commission to make orders for that bullying to stop on application from a…
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Heavy Vehicle National Law (NSW): Major Reforms to Road Transport Legislation
Read more on the recent commencement of the Heavy Vehicle National Law (NSW), a further step taken in major reform to the road transport legislation, that started nine months ago with the commencement of the Road Transport Act 2013 (RTA) on 1 July 2013.
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