Lenders should be reviewing their verification systems as identity requirements for mortgages spread across Australia.

Corporate ethics & practices are increasingly in the sights of regulators as a growing number of scandals prompt action.

Australian consumer affairs ministers agreed to replace existing mandatory Country-of-Origin food labelling requirements.

Construction firms should review and re-negotiate their current enterprise agreements to win Commonwealth-funded work.

The government intends to introduce a "Modern Slavery in Supply Chains Reporting Requirement" to combat modern slavery.

New guidelines will help agencies to understand their obligations to comply with international free trade agreements.

This article considers how corporate restructuring plans are developed and how to judge their success.

A fictional phrase in a fictional language was protected, and its unauthorised reproduction infringed that copyright.

In a recent dispute concerning a company's compliance with a subpoena, the Supreme Court of NSW considered the operation of the seldom used s 68 of the Civil Procedure Act 2005.

The changes to privacy law include creating a single set of Privacy Principles, and new provisions on credit reporting.

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has announced that it will propose new rules governing net neutrality.

The Federal Government has tabled amendments to the Privacy Act to introduce the mandatory reporting of privacy breaches.

This decision is likely to have wide-ranging ramifications for all participants in the construction industry in NSW.

A discussion paper asks for written submissions about how the state's current security of payment regime can be improved.

Public involvement in the strategic planning phase of the approval process should mean less need for later consultation.

Code assessment is meant to ensure 80% of development applications are assessed within five years.

Queensland landlords and tenants with commercial leases should review outgoings and land tax recovery clauses in leases.

In addition to the 3 bills, the State has also released a number of draft statutory instruments for public consultation,.

More owners and landlords may need a Building Energy Efficiency Certificate when selling or leasing commercial buildings.

The draft Rangelands reform bill failed to make its way into Parliament, but momentum exists for after the WA election.