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Legal team to protect Prosecco from EU attempts to limit competition
Law professors will clarify the legal basis for protecting geographic indications for wine in trade agreements as the European Union attempts to withhold Prosecco.
BIG LAW • Tue, 14 Jan 2020
PrimeCredit secures finance-backed securities issuance in Hong Kong
KWM assists PrimeCredit Limited on the first public consumer finance-backed securities issuance in Hong Kong SAR.
BIG LAW • Tue, 14 Jan 2020
How in-house has guaranteed survival by cost cutting
Cost control and cost management have always been defined as among the profession’s greatest challenges, but legal operations has since learnt to adapt.
CORPORATE COUNSEL • Tue, 14 Jan 2020
Lawyer X ‘genuinely wanted to assist police’, new statements find
New statements submitted to the royal commission investigating the Victoria Police on its human source management have shed light on how they came to employ a barrister ...
BIG LAW • Mon, 13 Jan 2020
Waterloo Metro Quarter moves ahead with new Sydney Metro contract
Ashurst has assisted the Waterloo Metro Quarter with a boost from a Sydney Metro contract with John Holland and Mirvac.
BIG LAW • Mon, 13 Jan 2020
Global law of sexual assault: How judging consent fails
In October of 2017, the #MeToo movement became a reckoning. Powerful men began to fall as victims felt empowered to speak up – but the justice system has remained as ...
BIG LAW • Mon, 13 Jan 2020
Law predicted the Duke and Duchess exit from the royal family
The news that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have left the British royal family could have been predicted from last June when they started filing trademark applications
BIG LAW • Sun, 12 Jan 2020
Religious Discrimination Bill will ‘humiliate, intimidate’ Australians
The proposed Religious Discrimination Bill continues to threaten human rights of many Australians as recommended provisions continue to be ignored.
BIG LAW • Sun, 12 Jan 2020
Kacific-1 to launch into space for Asia-Pacific internet access
A satellite launched on a Falcon 9 rocket will provide internet to the Asia-Pacific due in part to a deal closed by Gilbert + Tobin.
BIG LAW • Sun, 12 Jan 2020