The Government has introduced reforms to establish civil penalty provisions prohibiting the use of, and reliance on, unfair terms in standard form contracts. The legislation is also designed to ensure that in its agreements as to costs the legal profession complies with the enhanced...

ALJR Editors John Carroll and Colleen Tognetti on the High Court highlights for September

ALJR Editors John Carroll and Colleen Tognetti on High Court highlights for August

Practical Law Corporate has published updated Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) resources, providing subscribers with flowcharts and checklists to help quickly and easily determine if a transaction will require the Treasurer's prior consent or if an exemption may apply.

The preliminary title pages for the following volumes of the Federal Court Reports are available below. These title pages list all the contributors to the authorised reports which include the Editor, Consulting Editors, Reporters and Judges of the Federal Court of Australia.

Members' schemes of arrangement are one of the predominant means of acquiring control of a public company. A members' scheme of arrangement is a target driven process that requires cooperation between the bidder and target companies in the form of a scheme implementation deed. In...

On 4 October 2022 Reuters reported that the Financial Stability Oversight Council, a US regulatory panel comprising top financial regulators, had recommended that Congress pass legislation addressing risks digital assets pose to the financial system, including bills to bolster...

In Issue 33.1 of the Australian Intellectual Property Journal, General Editor David J Brennan discusses in a "Topics of Interest" piece the assignment in Deed form on 21 January 2022 from its author Harold Thomas to the Commonwealth of all copyright in the Australian Aboriginal Flag...