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Reddit Tells High Court Teen Social Media Ban 'Ineffective'
Reddit and advocacy group The Digital Freedom Project have urged the High Court of Australia to invalidate legislation barring social media accounts for under-16s, arguing it steps on their right to political communication, is ineffective and doesn't address the harms it is meant to address.
BHP Faces Union-Funded Class Action Over Holiday Work
BHP faces a class action in the Federal Court of Australia funded by the Mining and Energy Union and led by former employees of the miner's in-house labour hire company who allege they were unlawfully required to work public holidays including Christmas without providing a right of refusal, according to law firm AEN legal and court filings.
HSF Chair Says ASIC Over-Regulation Pushing Directors Away
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Chair and senior partner Rebecca Maslen-Stannage has struck out at ASIC for excessive regulation arguing Australian-listed company directors want to move to private firms as they feel "the ever-growing burden" of over-regulation alongside securities class action threats, in a Bathurst Lecture speech on Thursday evening.
Reddit Tells High Court Teen Social Media Ban 'Ineffective'
Reddit and advocacy group The Digital Freedom Project have urged the High Court of Australia to invalidate legislation barring social media accounts for under-16s, arguing it steps on their right to political communication, is ineffective and doesn't address the harms it is meant to address.
BHP Faces Union-Funded Class Action Over Holiday Work
BHP faces a class action in the Federal Court of Australia funded by the Mining and Energy Union and led by former employees of the miner's in-house labour hire company who allege they were unlawfully required to work public holidays including Christmas without providing a right of refusal, according to law firm AEN legal and court filings.
HSF Chair Says ASIC Over-Regulation Pushing Directors Away
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer Chair and senior partner Rebecca Maslen-Stannage has struck out at ASIC for excessive regulation arguing Australian-listed company directors want to move to private firms as they feel "the ever-growing burden" of over-regulation alongside securities class action threats, in a Bathurst Lecture speech on Thursday evening.
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Mergers that fail regulatory notification requirements will no longer be automatically voided under new rules passed by Parliament on Thursday, with the ACCC required to first obtain Federal Court approval to ... (more story)
The High Court of Australia has rejected Tabcorp's application for special leave to appeal a ruling that denied it a $1.49 billion tax deduction over alleged entitlements linked to the termination of gaming li... (more story)
High Court Justice Michelle Gordon said the legal profession could "do better" on women's equality, outlining practical steps to encourage equitable briefing at the bar in a wide-ranging speech in Melbourne last month.
The High Court of Australia has dismissed an appeal from a former NAB employee over a decision that the federal Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act precluded her from pursuing a claim against the bank ... (more story)
Australian commercial law firm Johnson Winter Slattery has opened its first overseas office in New York in a bid to help US clients gain regulatory approvals to invest in Australia.
The Criminal Bar Association of Victoria is defending the state's judges and magistrates after an opinion piece by former Victorian Chief Crown Prosecutor Gavin Silbert KC criticised the state's judicial appoi... (more story)
The High Court on Thursday agreed to hear an appeal over a decision dismissing a class action accusing former NAB unit NULIS Nominees, as trustee for the MLC Super Fund, of wrongly continuing to charge fund me... (more story)
The executive director of Equity Trustees told a parliamentary joint committee on Thursday that the firm has not compensated investors for their losses in the collapsed First Guardian and Shield funds because ... (more story)
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The Department of Finance has extended the current ban on KPMG Australia bidding for government contracts until the end of October as the deadline for the government's review of the auditing giant's governance... (more story)
The federal government's proposed digital duty of care would give the eSafety Commissioner unusually broad authority to order remedial action where it reasonably believes the new duties are not being met, acco... (more story)
Andrew Clements KC has been appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of Victoria sitting in the common law division, which hears matters concerning property, tort, contract law, wills and estates, and appeals fr... (more story)
ASIC has banned former Sequoia Financial Group CEO Garry Crole from managing a financial services business for 10 years due to competence and diligence failures in his management of subsidiary Interprac which ... (more story)
A New South Wales Supreme Court judge has approved private equity giant Warburg Pincus' purchase of commercial credit and risk reporting services platform CreditorWatch, in a deal worth around $700 million.
Phi Finney McDonald said it is "well advanced" in a class action proposal against Corporate Travel Management and it's former auditor PwC Australia for allegedly misleading investors in its financial reports a... (more story)
Former ASIC deputy chair Peter Kell will head an independent review into the banking code of practice and its oversight by the Banking Code compliance committee.
The Victorian Supreme Court judge overseeing a shareholder class action alleging mining company Arrium Ltd issued misleading financial reports has rejected auditor KPMG's bid to access draft versions of a plai... (more story)