Interesting articles, speeches, podcasts and media releases
Fri Sep 14 2018Consumer data right by Valeska Bloch, Gavin Smith, Ian McGill, Michael Morris, Michael Park, Phil O'Sullivan, David Rountree, Jamie Griffin, Emily Cravigan, Alex Ortner, Leah Wickman, Claudia Hall and James Higgins of Allens - considers the Treasury Laws Amendment (Consumer Data Right) Bill 2018, if passed, it will establish an 'economy-wide consumer-directed data transfer system'
Digital currency and DLT developments by Peter Reeves, Georgina Willcock, Candice Fraser, Marcus Wong and Robert O'Grady of Gilbert + Tobin - examines developments in digital currencies and distributed ledger technology
Esports – is it a sport, a business or both? by Emma Johnsen and Nathan Mattock of Marque Lawyers - considers legal issues relating to esports
The judicialisation of values by Chief Justice Allsop AO
Juvenile or adult? Leap-year suspect causes headache for court by Jordan Hayne of ABC News - court had to consider whether a girl born on 29/2/2000 who committed a crime on the 28th of February 18 years later should be tried as an adult
Law Report (ABC) for 11 September presented by Damien Carrick - Report says we need to know who and why each prisoner is placed in solitary confinement in Victorian prisons
New consumer law protections in action : what is an unfair contract? by Andrew Lacey of McCabe Curwood - considers Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Servcorp Ltd [2018] FCA 1044
Power to the purchaser – what to know before you sell off-the-plan in NSW by Grace Quiddington of Clayton Utz - considers proposals to amend the Conveyancing (Sale of Land) Regulation 2017 (NSW)
Record penalties against technology company - media release from the Fair Work Ombudsman about it obtaining record penalties against Macquarie Technology Group International Pty Ltd and owner Paul Desmond Wallace for failing to comply with an order to compensate an employee who had been unfairly dismissed
The rule of law and international trade by Justice Steven Rares
Seaworthiness, general average and “actionable fault” by Joe Hurley and Jesper Martens of HWL Ebsworth - considers Mount Isa Mines Ltd v The Ship “Thor Commander” [2018] FCA 1326
Securing our energy future : Corrs sits down with Kane Thornton of the Clean Energy Council by Jane Hider of Corrs Chambers Westgarth - Kane Thornton discusses where he sees the policy debate heading and emerging hybrid technologies
Two wrongs don’t make a legal right by Lionel Hogg of Gadens - considers R (Gallaher Group Ltd and others) v Competition and Markets Authority [2018] UKSC 25
When the purchaser doesn’t complete : rights of the purchaser to rescind by Sydney Jacobs of 13 Wentworth Selborne - examines the rights of a purchaser to rescind
Whopping fines for telling whoppers : increase in penalties for breach of ACL by Paul McLachlan, Alex Hutchens, Belinda Breakspear, Matthew McMillan and Shilpa Sagy of McCullough Robertson - the Treasury Laws Amendment (2018 Measures No. 3) Act 2018 (Cth) amended the Australian Consumer Law to align the maximum civil penalties for consumer law breaches with those currently applicable to the competition provisions of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth)