Corporate Law Reform Bill is just window dressing

JUST WINDOW DRESSING?: The amendments to Australia’s insolvency regime are distinctly underwhelming, write Geoff McDonald and Blair Pleash, and represent a missed opportunity for true reform

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OPINION & ANALYSIS

The trouble with Garnaut

Economic theory as applied to climate change states that if the cost of emissions reductions is uncertain (as it is, because reduction technology is not fully developed), then a “price” instrument, such as a carbon tax, is the preferred method and not an emissions trading scheme

Is Ketchell a catch-all?

The High Court is to clarify the application of the common law concept of illegality to the franchising code of conduct and the TPA, writes Stephen Giles

Cutting remarks

Tony Parsons, managing director of Victoria Legal Aid, replies to the article “VLA cuts funding to Fitzroy Legal Service

Rules of legal professional privilege tightened — Rich v Harrington

Extreme care must be exercised when publicly referring to legal advice, write Leighton O’brien, Richard Harris and Lucas Shipway of Allens Arthur Robinson

Privacy: the playing field of the 21st century

BY IAN JORDAN
The curtain is about to come up on Australia’s new era of privacy, with the ALRC widely tipped to maintain its draft proposal for a new tort – or right – of privacy itself, writes Ian Jordan.

Court of public opinion not the last word

BY LAURA MACINTYRE
My experience of the Bill Henson controversy was neatly encapsulated this morning when I attempted a quick Google search to prepare this article. Tapping the now infamous artist’s name into Google, I found thumbnails of some of his recent photographs quite easily.

Japanese whaling in Australian Antarctic waters

Australia can lawfully stop Japanese whaling in Australia’s Antarctic waters and doing so would be a sound policy decision writes Dr Chris McGrath, junior counsel for the Humane Society International Inc in the Japanese Whaling Case.

Right the Rights

DAVID LANDER
ACT Attorney-General Simon Corbell’s passionate defence of human rights and civil liberties for same-sex couples stands in stark contrast to the performance of the Territory Government in relation to human rights, civil liberties and the rights of the individual generally, writes ACT Solicitor & Barrister David Lander

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