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Trust accounts hold significant funds on behalf of clients across legal, real estate, and strata management sectors, yet weak controls and high transaction volumes create...

The increase in demand for RATs across Australia has led to theft, fraud, price gouging and a thriving black market.

This bulletin has links to media releases, reports, cases, legislation and issues of interest to NSW government lawyers.

In Australia the corporate regulator, the ASIC, can institute criminal proceedings or civil penalty proceedings against directors and officers for a range of breaches of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).

Types of complaint that can result in disciplinary proceedings for lawyers and the range of orders that may be made.

The article discusses the recent ABS case, laws and penalties relating to insider trading and ASIC enforcement action,.

All levels of government must exercise the utmost care, in order to ensure that they avoid appearing at ICAC hearings.

The US Department of Justice accused three online poker companies of bank fraud, illegal gambling and money laundering.

Procedural fairness generally applies to all government decisions affecting a person's rights or interests, unless there is a clear Parliamentary intention evident in the relevant legislation to exclude procedural fairness.

The maximum penalty for fraud in NSW is 10 years imprisonment from the District Court, or 2 years from the Local Court.

Obtaining a financial advantage by deception is an offence which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.

This bulletin has links to media releases, reports, cases, legislation and issues of interest to NSW government lawyers.

The Full Federal Court has confirmed the Wayne Tank principle, which denies indemnity for a loss arising from both insured and excluded events.

This article summarises our selection of the most relevant cases from 2017 and the key takeaways for business for 2018.

There are important differences between the terms tax fraud, tax evasion and tax avoidance.

2006 may be remembered by the insolvency profession for the collapse of the Westpoint Group, which engaged in property development across Australia with use of investors’ funds in mezzanine style finance arrangements.

Australia's Federal Government has tabled the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Combatting Corporate Crime) Bill 2017.