In anticipation of the 2021 annual general meeting (AGM) season, this article sets out some key steps that a company can take to prepare for its AGM.
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How do Lawyers Stay Across Defamation Law in Australia?
As many lawyers know firsthand, it’s been a struggle to keep up with the breakneck pace of legal changes over the past year. Here’s how the experts do it.
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Law Commission’s Review of Surrogacy Laws Explained
Te Aka Matua o te Ture / the Law Commission has released an Issues Paper reviewing surrogacy laws in New Zealand and making recommendations for reform.
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Crown Royal Commission Submissions Raised Questions about Directors’ Duties
The Royal Commission’s most senior lawyer went on to outline how Crown management and its culture had put profit ahead of integrity, regulation and the law.
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AMP Reinvents Advice Model in Wake of Bruising Royal Commission Findings
The company said the new service model, with its aligned advice network, would mark a “new era for financial advice at AMP”.
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Sherlock Holmes in Robes: An Advocate’s Forensic Duty
The term ‘forensic’ is described as belonging to courts of judicature, argument or rhetoric, or the scientific knowledge applied to legal problems.
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Planning Law: Australia’s Ticket to a Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery?
Legal Insight talks to Jacinta Studdert, Valencia Govender and Peter Lochore, contributing authors to Planning Law in Australia, about the changes to planning approvals processes.
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Will AI Transform Dispute Resolution as We Know it?
The power, efficiency and accuracy of well-calibrated AI creates tantalizing possibilities in the field of dispute resolution.
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Casual Employment Reforms Passed in Pared-back Fair Work Amendment Act
The Federal Government passed legislation on 22 March 2021, amending the Fair Work Act 2009 specifically in relation to casual employment.
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Fit and Proper Culture? Addressing “Hidden Bad Behaviour” in the Profession
The Legal Profession Uniform Law (NSW) states that to be an admitted lawyer, a person must be a “fit and proper” person. But what does this mean in practice?
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