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Law firm Gilbert + Tobin has unveiled its new leadership team, with two partners to take the helm following co-founder Danny Gilbert’s decision to step down from his role as managing partner.
Highly anticipated legislation creating a federal anti-corruption commission has received unanimous support and could pass by the end of the year, but a fight may be on the horizon over the commission's power to conduct public hearings.
Legislation introduced in the wake of massive cyberattacks against Optus and Medibank that will increase penalties for serious privacy law violations to $50 million has sailed through the House just two weeks after being introduced.
The outgoing deputy chair for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says Australia “really needs” a new unfair practices law, echoing sentiments from the regulator’s former boss.
The consumer regulator has taken Dell Australia to court for allegedly making misleading statements about the price of add-on monitors that could be purchased with Dell computers during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
White shoe firm White & Case has lured a partner from Norton Rose Fulbright to beef up its competition capabilities in Australia.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission is targeting predatory lending, greenwashing and crypto-assets as rising interest rates cause consumers to turn to fringe sources of credit.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has drawn “a line in the sand” on greenwashing and will no longer accept “purely aspirational” climate change targets from companies, the regulator’s deputy chair has said.
As part of expansion plans for its Canberra office, Ashurst has brought back Mathew Baldwin as a partner in its digital economy team to advise federal government agencies in digital and data projects.
A joint court application by ASIC and NSW Fair Trading calls for special purpose liquidators to claw back money from funeral insurer Youpla over concerns about the current liquidator's relationship with the failed company's former lawyer.