The Australian Securities Exchange – or ASX – is supposed to keep financial markets ‘fair, orderly and transparent’. Why is it being taken to court?
- Adjunct Professor of Law, University of New England
Affected businesses will naturally now be asking who is legally responsible, and whether there’ll be any compensation. These are important questions, but legally, the answers will be complex.
The ACCC has prioritised getting timely compensation to affected customers over pursuing the airline on the more serious charge of collecting fees for no service.
PwC’s reputation has been damaged but public opinion is likely to demand more serious consequences.
A 1971 High Court ruling on rugby league contracts set an important Australian precedent on human rights. Fifty years on, we need to decide if players deserve the right to a presumption of innocence.
This is a big win for Australia’s consumer watchdog in its ongoing battle against misleading environmental claims.
Negotiated deals between ASIC and alleged wrongdoers leave us in doubt as to the reach of the law.
Evidence in front of the banking royal commission today is very similar to the case that sparked consumer protection laws more than 30 years ago.
ASIC has a high success rate, but its high-profile civil action against ANZ Bank will be a tough battle to win.
It’s not good to make law changes as a knee-jerk reaction, but in the case of insolvency and gift cards, it’s time.
The sentences handed to insider traders Lukas Kamay and Christopher Hill send a strong message, but preventing the opportunity for such crimes to occur is just as important.
Australia’s business community awoke last week to the shocking headlines in Fairfax newspapers that Leighton Holdings and its subsidiaries stand accused of bribery and corruption in the acquisition of…
It has has been suggested a hoax by anti-coal activist Jonathan Moylan wiping million of dollars from Whitehaven Coal’s share price was an act of “civil disobedience”, akin to chaining a person to a tree…
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