ASIC’s final report is a clear call to action for Australia’s private credit sector. Boards and managers must move decisively to address the regulator’s concerns, or risk facing enforcement action as ...

There is no "five year requirement" for the section 58 statements that need to be filed with exploration licence applications, following the important and awaited decision in Richmond v Warden Thomas ...

Inclusion of a GLS is mandatory in a Commonwealth lease on and from 1 January 2025 in all leases in which the Commonwealth is a party, which are for a net lettable area of 1000 square metres or ...

ASIC’s review is driven by three overarching concerns: market opacity, growing systemic risk and heightened investor-protection imperatives. This private market reform agenda is part of a global ...

Property claims, especially lien claims, are common in the current environment of supply chain disruption and delay. Most contractual, statutory and common law lien claims, including where the ...

Since at least the early 2000s, decisions of administrative decision-makers have been susceptible to being set aside for jurisdictional error if those decisions are ...

The test for whether a term is unfair is not so clear that contract drafters can have absolute confidence that they can prevent an automatic renewal clause from falling foul of the unfair contract ...

The task facing the WA public sector in readying itself for the new PRIS laws is a considerable one, particularly given the retrospectivity of some of the IPPs. For the first time, the WA public ...

If evidence cannot be collated to show either serious harm to reputation having been suffered or the publication being likely to cause such harm, a claim may not go far. In November 2021, the Uniform ...

Proposed legislation will require large Australian corporations and asset managers (with more than $5 billion under management) to make climate-related financial disclosures in their annual reports ...

To use the newly introduced “public interest defence”, it's vitally important for a publisher to demonstrate that the steps they took to inform themselves of matters relevant to their belief were ...

New greenfield mining projects that will create greenhouse gas emissions (and significant modifications to existing mining operations) may now face a higher bar for approval in NSW, and will require ...