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Hospitals who wish to commercially benefit from health and medical research need to know who is involved in that research, their level of contribution and their relationship with the hospital.

Infrastructure Partnerships Australia (IPA) recently released its paper entitled, ‘Impact of infrastructure gaps on the objectives of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme’.

New legislation is in place in New South Wales regulating security over ‘goods’ such as personal property, livestock, fish, crops and wool. The Security Interests in Goods Act 2005 (NSW) became operational on 1 March 2006 and replaces the previous system established under the Bills of Sale Act 1898 (NSW) and the Liens on Crops and Wool and Stock Mortgages Act 1898 (NSW).

Yesterday the Australian Fair Pay Commission (AFPC) released its first minimum wage determination. From 1 December the Federal Minimum Wage (FMW) will rise by $27.36 per week, an increase from $12.75 to $13.47 per hour.

It has been a generally held belief that, in striving to uphold the intentions of the parties to a contract, courts will generally remedy a simple error in cross-referencing. However, a recent case shows that some errors are not as simple as they may seem, and serves as a warning that a final, thorough check of a contract is essential to avoid a clause being struck out for uncertainty, with potentially disastrous and certainly unintended consequences.

The Full Federal Court of Australia has rejected Telstra’s appeal that copyright subsists in its valuable yellow and white pages directories. For owners of directories, compilations and databases, this decision confirms it is difficult to rely on copyright for protection, meaning new strategies are required to protect valuable information works. We recommend owners review their copyright protection measures and seek clarity and advice on new IP protection, commercialisation and enforcement strat

Is domestic arbitration dying? Will it suffer death at the hands of adjudication? Can legislative reform revive it? These questions are currently receiving a deal of attention from politicians and distinguished practitioners1 as a result of the recent tabling of the International Arbitration Amendment Bill 2009 which proposes amendments to the International Arbitration Act 1974 (Cth) (IAA) as well as a proposed new model Bill to reform the uniform commercial arbitration legislation adopted by e

The article looks at the importance of legislative and political stability in delivering African resources projects.

A recent Fair Work Commission case considered the doubt that can exist about whether a casual is truly a casual.

The continuing effects of the global financial crisis have resulted in what some have called unprecedented turmoil in financial markets. Some of the volatility in stock markets has been blamed on short selling.

The Rudd Government recently issued its response to the Productivity Commission's (Commission) final report on Australia's director and executive remuneration framework, which was commissioned amid the market turmoil caused by the global financial crisis in March 2009 and released on 4 January 2010.

The Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs (Committee) recently conducted an inquiry into the 2009 Bill.

On 10 March 2009, the Federal Government released the exposure draft legislation for Australia’s proposed Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Scheme).

In the recent decision of Balnaves v Smith & Anor; Malone v Smith & Or [2010] QSC 39, the Queensland Supreme Court rejected the previous school of thought that section 247 of the Supreme Court Act 1995 (Qld) mandates an equal apportionment regardless of the degree of fault in Queensland maritime collisions.

The Full Court of the Federal Court recently handed down a decision on the ‘Crown copyright’ provisions in Part VII of the Copyright Act 1968 (Cth).

On 11 May 2007, the Attorney-General, the Hon Philip Ruddock MP, released the Statement of IP Principles. The Statement of IP Principles is an IP Policy which provides a framework for effective management of Intellectual Property by Australian Government agencies.

The Federal Court of Australia’s recent decision in Qantas Airways Ltd v Australian and International Pilots Association [2010] FCA 231 illustrates that the courts are likely to take a common sense approach to the interpretation of the provisions of a collective agreement. This case involved a dispute between an airline and an organisation representing its pilots over provisions in a collective agreement for overtime payments.

The Administrative Appeals Tribunal was recently required to consider whether the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) can issue an Air Operator's Certificate (AOC) to an organisation if the proposed operator does not have a current chief pilot.