The Covid-19 Outbreak and Contract Relief in the Form of Force Majeure
Introduction The new lunar year of the Metal Rat has regrettably commenced amidst an abundance of wretched disasters. Whether flood, fires and most distressingly, the global pandemic of the Covid-19…
Modern Slavery in the Supply Chain
Slave is defined in the Macquarie Encyclopaedic Dictionary as: 1. /sleiv/ n. someone who is the property of, and wholly subject to another 2. Someone who works for and is the prisoner of another;…
Director Identification Number Bill
The war against phoenixing
Do You Have Goodwill?
High Court reprises Federal Commissioner of Taxation v Murry in Placer Dome
Crowd-Sourced Funding for Private Companies
Crowd-sourced equity funding (CSF) is now available for proprietary companies. Up until recently, CSF was only available to qualifying unlisted public companies. As the vast number of companies…
Time To Review Documents With Warranties to Consumers
Mandatory Conditions For Services as Well as Goods
EU Data Bomb: Australian Collateral Damage
On 25 May 2018 the European Union [EU or Union] General Data Protection Regulation [GDPR] came into effect. The GDPR is a law directed to the protection of privacy and personal information, like the…
Buried in the Budget: Directors in the Firing Line
In the Harry Potter books the members of the Order of the Phoenix are the good guys struggling against Lord Voldemort and the corrupt Ministry of Magic. To the Federal government and ASIC, however,…
Making Sense of the Personal Property Securities Register
The operation of the Personal Property Securities Register (“PPSR”) can be a confusing enough concept for lawyers, let alone the general public. However, having a basic knowledge of the priority…
Contract Termination for Insolvency – Not Anymore!
So you think that you have the right to terminate a contract if the other side is insolvent? Maybe not as of 1 July 2018. New laws have recently come into effect preventing parties from enforcing…
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