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Many directors in Australia do not understand their responsibilities or have the business skills to manage effectively.

Chris Bowen MP, the Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law, has announced proposals to enhance the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s powers to pursue market misconduct. According to Minister Bowen, "these changes will ensure ASIC is properly equipped to investigate and prosecute serious corporate misconduct [that] has the potential to cause significant harm to the economy and investors".

The UK Bribery Act will commence on 1 July 2011, so if your company is carrying on business in the UK, you will need to ensure you are ready for it – or risk being prosecuted for acts done by foreign employees, agents or subsidiaries in other countries (including facilitation payments), and without your permission.

Update on Document Retention: Procedures for In-House Counsel seminar.Further to our recent seminars conducted on this topic, the Crimes (Document Destruction) Act 2005 (the Act) was passed by the Victorian Parliament on 4 April 2006.

If a company or corporate organisation commits a crime, its directors and managers may be personally criminally liable.

Recent developments have driven organisations to reassess culture and the robustness of internal policies and processes.

Corporate victims of white collar crime may decide not to report it to the police for many reasons, but that failure may itself be a criminal offence.

We discuss Secretary, Department of Planning and Environment v Charbon Coal Pty Ltd [2016].

WHS regulators are yet to truly test the strength of Qld WHS laws for white-collar officers in medium and large companies.

A series of reforms aimed at preventing illegal ‘phoenix' activity has been implemented.

Criticism of ASIC reached new heights following a decision not to prosecute David Jones' directors for insider trading.

Using social media to coordinate 'pump and dump' activity in listed stocks is an offence under the Corporations Act 2001.

The NSW Court of Criminal Appeal has now gone a long way to resolving uncertainty in Australia's insider trading laws.

The Crime and Misconduct Commission Amendment Act 2014 was recently passed by the Queensland Parliament.

New whistleblower provisions in the US grant monetary rewards to individuals who report illegal conduct to the SEC.

The Australian Law Reform Commission ("ALRC") has released its much anticipated Discussion Paper on Australia's corporate criminal responsibility regime, which provides the ALRC's preliminary

Discussion on the impending court case regarding Australia's anti-bibery and corruption laws

Whistleblowing and Foreign Bribery Bills introduced into Senate confirm Australian Government's intention to increase corporate compliance requirements.