Discusses why there is a need for a national forensic science authority.

Fresh from the implementation of the Commercial Building Disclosure (CBD) laws in November 2010, the Commonwealth Government is pressing ahead with its drive to green Australia's building stock.

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Professionals could face jail time if they fail to undertake due diligence checks or report suspicious transactions.

There has been some recent debate by the judiciary as to whether the court can allow service of a claim form out of the jurisdiction by an alternative method. In this case, the claimant applied to serve a defendant domiciled in the USA by email.

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A Agência Nacional de Transportes Aquaviários (Antaq), o órgão regulador do setor, autorizou a demolição do Armazém XLII (42 externo) ...

Plaintiffs' lawyers recently filed numerous lawsuits alleging that some of the nation's largest mutual funds breached fiduciary duties to their shareholders by failing to file claim forms to collect securities class action settlement payouts to which the funds were entitled. Whether or not meritorious, these lawsuits highlight the duties of trust officers, investment advisors, pension fund managers and other institutional fiduciaries and investors with regard to class action claims, and

Discusses s115 FLC of the FLA which highlights points in relation to Family Law Council.

The Government has ended months of speculation, introducing the Privacy Amendment (Privacy Alerts) Bill 2013 to Parliament.

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The crime that the US charges Duggan with only started being a crime in Australia in March this year

MUR Shipping BV v Louis Dreyfus Company Suisse SA "TIGER SHANGHAI" [2019] EWHC 3240 (Comm)

Recipients of Hague Convention Letters of Request should carefully consider the breadth of the documents sought.

A americana Cargill, maior empresa de agronegócios do mundo, mantém aceso o sinal de alerta por causa da guerra comercial entre os Estados Unidos e a China

In the realm of international commerce, where transactions are often negotiated through electronic communications and performance sometimes...

In good news for New Zealand patent applicants, the Patent Office has issued a decision rejecting invocation of the law on patentable subject matter by an Examiner to support a double patenting objection in Taiho Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

The Commercial Court in this case has decided as a preliminary issue an important question in the context of voyage charterparties, namely whether a strike exception to the running of laytime applies to stop laytime running (i) after the strike has ended; and (ii) where the vessel is delayed in berthing due to congestion that has arisen as a result of the strike.

Crackdown on crime in the NT and cutting of legal aid for adults will have a disproportionate impact upon First Nations.

The recent case of Wilmar Oleo Pte Ltd v. Vinmar Chemicals and Polymers BV (MT Varkan Ege) [2011] EWHC 2067 (Comm) involved a dispute between the parties to an FOB sale contract for biofuel as to what terms, if any, had been agreed between them with regard to determination of the quality of the cargo.