Pub­li­ca­tions

Mar 7, 2023

Direc­tors’ Access to Com­pa­ny Books: Nav­i­gat­ing Statu­to­ry & Com­mon Law Require­ments in Australia

To man­age a com­pa­ny and dis­charge their duties, direc­tors need access to com­pa­ny infor­ma­tion. Ten­sion between direc­tors can arise about what access they can have to com­pa­ny books, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the con­text of a dis­pute at board lev­el. How­ev­er, direc­tors have statu­to­ry rights and com­mon law rights to access com­pa­ny books. This…

Jul 16, 2021

Update on Statu­to­ry Demands – changes to min­i­mum thresh­old and (for some) time to comply

On 1 July 2021, Sched­ule 1 to the Cor­po­ra­tions Amend­ment (Statu­to­ry Min­i­mum) Reg­u­la­tions 2021 (Cth) (Reg­u­la­tions) came into force, increas­ing the min­i­mum amount which a debtor com­pa­ny must owe a cred­i­tor before that cred­i­tor can issue a statu­to­ry demand to the debtor (Statu­to­ry Min­i­mum) and chang­ing, for some debtors, the peri­od in which debtors can…

Feb 3, 2021

UPDATE | Changes to statu­to­ry demands from 1 Jan­u­ary 2021

Marc Bad­dams and Sean Green­wood pro­vide an update fol­low­ing on from the recent arti­cle Changes to statu­to­ry demands from 1 Jan­u­ary 2021 post­ed on 23 Decem­ber 2021.Update The Cor­po­ra­tions Amend­ment (Cor­po­rate Insol­ven­cy Reforms) Act 2020 (Cth) (the Act), com­menced on 1 Jan­u­ary 2021. The Act pro­vides, among oth­er things, that for a three month…

Dec 23, 2020

Changes to statu­to­ry demands from 1 Jan­u­ary 2021

The tem­po­rary insol­ven­cy pro­tec­tions relat­ing to statu­to­ry demands, which apply to all com­pa­nies, are due to end on 31 Decem­ber 2020.  In the nor­mal course, under sec­tion 459E of the Cor­po­ra­tions Act, a cred­i­tor can issue a statu­to­ry demand against a com­pa­ny demand­ing pay­ment of a debt of at least $2,000 (the Statu­to­ry Min­i­mum) that…

Nov 26, 2020

Our most pop­u­lar arti­cles pub­lished dur­ing 2020

We are almost at the end of 2020, and with the end of a year comes the oppor­tu­ni­ty to reflect on our most pop­u­lar arti­cles pub­lished dur­ing the year: 1. COVID-19 Ten­an­cy Update by Mary Digiglio & Tony D’Agosti­no | Prop­er­ty, Plan­ning & Projects | 24 Sep­tem­ber 2020 2. COVID-19 | Redun­dan­cy pay­ments dur­ing the…

Jul 16, 2020

Mer­i­tas — An Intro­duc­tion to Tem­po­rary Changes Affect­ing Busi­ness­es in Aus­tralia and New Zealand

Look­ing for busi­ness and legal guid­ance regard­ing COVID-19 updates and pro­grams in Aus­tralia & New Zealand? This doc­u­ment has cov­er­age across the region with mem­ber firms who are here to assist. Please vis­it any of the COVID-19 resource mate­ri­als for more com­pre­hen­sive updates.  View here…

Apr 7, 2020

Defin­ing An ​‘Offi­cer’ Under the Cor­po­ra­tions Act: Case Note — Aus­tralian Secu­ri­ties and Invest­ments Com­mis­sion v King [2020] HCA 4

Defin­ing An ​‘Offi­cer’ Under the Cor­po­ra­tions Act: Case Note — Aus­tralian Secu­ri­ties and Invest­ments Com­mis­sion v King [2020] HCA 4 Intro­duc­tion On 11 March 2020 the High Court of Aus­tralia hand­ed down judg­ment in the case of Aus­tralian Secu­ri­ties and Invest­ments Com­mis­sion v King [2020] HCA 4, with the judg­ment pro­vid­ing a long-await­ed clear…

Mar 19, 2020

Con­tracts in the time of the Coro­n­avirus (COVID-19)

There has been unprece­dent­ed dis­rup­tions to busi­ness­es and the econ­o­my with the cur­rent coro­n­avirus (COVID-19) pan­dem­ic. With the restric­tions being placed on the move­ment of peo­ple and gath­er­ings, COVID could have very real impli­ca­tions for a range of indus­tries like con­struc­tion, which require a large work­force to be mobilised to work on…

Dec 17, 2019

Our most pop­u­lar arti­cles pub­lished dur­ing 2019

We are almost at the end of 2019, and with the end of a year comes the oppor­tu­ni­ty to reflect on our most pop­u­lar arti­cles pub­lished dur­ing the year:Deeds of Release and their effec­tive­ness – update 2019 | Richard Ott­ley | Employ­ment LawFair Work Com­mis­sion – When will the Full Bench enter­tain an…

Sep 10, 2019

It’s almost time: Amend­ments to the Build­ing and Con­struc­tion Indus­try Secu­ri­ty of Pay­ment Act 1999 (NSW) to com­mence on 21 Octo­ber 2019

The Build­ing and Con­struc­tion Indus­try Secu­ri­ty of Pay­ment Act 1999 (NSW) (the Act) is about to under­go some changes. Those changes will apply to con­struc­tion con­tracts in New South Wales entered from 21 Octo­ber 2019. What are the changes?Ref­er­ence dates are goneThere are no more ref­er­ence dates. The con­cept of a ​‘ref­er­ence date’ will…