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Australian Law Update - December 2011
Welcome to the latest edition of Piper Alderman's Australian Law Update
This publication is designed to keep you up to date with legal developments that may affect you or your clients who do business in Australia.
 
  • Australia’s foreign bribery laws: First charges laid
  • The Personal Property Securities Act – scheduled to launch 30 January 2012
  • The Timbercorp Securities Ltd (in liq) class action
  • Employee’s redundancy imposes barrier to enforcement of non-competition restraint
  • Standard of arbitral reasons in Australian domestic arbitrations – Westport Insurance Commission v Gordian Runoff Ltd
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Australian Law Update - August 2011

Welcome to the latest edition of Piper Alderman's Australian Law Update

This publication is designed to keep you up to date with legal developments that may affect you or your clients who do business in Australia.

Highlights of the August edition:

  • Australia and New Zealand to increase foreign investment screening thresholds
  • Agribusiness roundup
  • Twitter, suppression and the Courts
  • Centro and its lessons for directors
  • Indemnity clauses in commercial contracts: How to achieve desired contractual risk allocation
  • Andrew Robertson is appointed to Asian arbitral bodies

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Australian Law Update - May 2011

Welcome to the latest edition of Piper Alderman's Australian Law Update

This publication is designed  to keep you up to date with legal developments that may affect you or your clients who do business in Australia.

Highlights of the May edition:

  • The new Australian Consumer Law
  • Update on Senate inquiry into foreign investment in Australian farmland
  • Incoterms 2010® – What do I need to know?
  • The public debate about the patentability of biological material: Is it much ado about nothing?

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Australian Law Update - December 2010

Welcome to the latest edition of Piper Alderman's Australian Law Update

This publication is designed  to keep you up to date with legal developments that may affect you or your clients who do business in Australia.

Highlights of the December edition:

  • Foreign investment in Australian farm land: domestic scrutiny is on the horizon
  • Australian European Community Agreement on Trade in Wine
  • Non-Resident – No Formal Trust Deed – Liable for Income Tax as a Trustee
  • Class Action Reforms – Wooing Classes to the NSW Supreme Court?

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Australian Law Update - September 2010

Welcome to the latest edition of Piper Alderman's Australian Law Update

This publication is designed  to keep you up to date with legal developments that may affect you
or your clients who do business in Australia.

Highlights of the September edition:

  • Dividends – beware the new changes
  • Australia seeks to promote itself as a player in arbitration
  • Insolvent trading – ASIC releases regulatory guide for directors
  • Preparing for a hostile takeover

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Australian Law Update - May 2010

Welcome to the latest edition of Piper Alderman's Australian Law Update

This publication is designed  to keep you up to date with legal developments that may affect you
or your clients who do business in Australia.

Highlights of the May edition:

  • Play fair! New rules for consumer contracts
  • Waging a war on two fronts fatal to claim
  • Foreign investment – accounting for the emergence of complex structures
  • Consequences of Australian climate policies on investment

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Australian Law Update - February 2010

Welcome to the first edition of Piper Alderman's Australian Law Update

This publication is designed  to keep you up to date with legal developments that may affect you
or your clients who do business in Australia.

Highlights of the February edition:

 

·         Modernisation of Australia's international commercial arbitration law

·         Personal Property Securities Act – implications for reservation of title suppliers and consignors

·         Class actions in Australia – a plaintiff's paradise?

·         Directors' duties – current perspectives 

 

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