Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Australian Business Law Review update: Vol 48 Pt 2
The latest Part of the Australian Business Law Review includes the following articles: “COVID-19, JobKeeper and Stand Down under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth): A Review of the Law” – Victoria Lambropoulos; “The Contractual Impact of COVID-19 on Corporate and Financial Transactions” – Andrew Godwin; “The Challenges of Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic for Australia’s Franchise Sector” – Jenny Buchan and Rob Nicholls; “Courts, Mediation and COVID-19” – Tania Sourdin and John Zeleznikow; “Commercial Litigation and COVID-19 – the Role and Limits of Technology” – Michael Legg and Anthony Song; “Frustratingly Unclear? The Interplay Between Common Law, Statute and the ACL in Assessing Consumer Rights in a Time of Crisis” – Alex Jane and Jeannie Marie Paterson; “Prepayments, the ACL and the ASIC Act” – Philip H Clarke; “COVID Collaboration and Competition Policy: Authorisation vs Forbearance as Crisis Responses” – David Howarth and Harriet Alexander; and “Transport, Drones and Regulatory Challenges: Risk Accountability Meets COVID Fast Tracking of a Critical Industry” – J Tarr, A Tarr and K Paynter. Also in this Part is an Editorial by Dr Victoria Lambropoulos.

Australian Business Law Review update: Vol 47 Pt 5
The latest Part of the Australian Business Law Review includes the following articles: “Finding the Balance between Profit and Purpose: Should Australia Create a Legal Structure for Social Enterprise?” – Alice Klettner; “Sponsor Pressure to Discipline Employees Who Have Expressed Unwelcome Views and Reform of the Business Torts in Australia” – Anthony Gray; “Proof of Collusion: The Evidentiary Options When There Is No “Smoking Gun”” – Genevieve Rahman and Tina Sun; and “”Fair in All the Circumstances”: AFCA’s Discretion to Resolve Disputes” – Nick Beaumont SC. Also in this Part are the following sections: Editorial by Michael Terceiro; and Franchising and Small Business: “Australia’s Franchising Code of Conduct Review – a Continuation Down the Path of Jamming a Square Peg into a Round Hole?” – Jenny Buchan.

Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law update: Vol 27 Pt 4
The latest Part of the Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law includes the following articles: “Agents as Competitors? The Implications of ACCC v Flight Centre for Dual Distribution” – Andrew McClenahan; “The Challenge of Applying s 47 of the Competition and Consumer Act in Cases Based on Purpose” – Justin Oliver; and the following sections: Editorial; Access to Services; Defective Goods; Restrictive Trade Practices; Case Notes; Council Considerations; Commission Cameos; Report from Europe; Report from China; and Book Review.

Insolvency Law Journal update: Vol 27 Pt 3
The latest Part of the Journal includes the following articles: “The ACCC’s Pursuit of Corporate Respondents in the VET Sector Operating under External Administration” – Mary Wyburn; “Rescuing the Rescue Culture? Australian Corporate Restructuring After the Safe Harbour and Ipso Facto Reforms” – Corey Byrne; “Insolvent Trading in Australia: A Study of Court Judgments from 2004 to 2017” – Stacey Steele and Ian Ramsay; and the following sections: Editorial – Dr David Morrison; Recent Developments: “The Insolvent Trustee”; “The Use of the Trust” – David Morrison; “Amerind – The Aftermath: Questions and Practical Difficulties Remaining” – Garry Hamilton; and Report from New Zealand: “Insolvent Transactions Back before the Supreme Court: Robt Jones Holdings Ltd v McCullagh” – Lynne Taylor.
Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law update: Vol 26 Pt 1
The latest Part of the Australian Journal of Competition and Consumer Law includes the following articles: “Online Scams and Spam – Legal Measures to Stem the Rising Tide” – Adrian Coorey; “The Sound of One Hand Shaking Itself: Inchoate Cartel Conduct under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010” – Brendan Walker-Munro; and “Mobile Infrastructure Regulation in Australia: Is Light-Touch Regulation Appropriate?” – Angela Flannery; and the following sections: Access to Services; Consumer Protection; Telecommunications; Case Notes; Snapshots; Energy Etchings; Report from India; and Report from Latin America.
Australian Law Journal update: Vol 91 Pt 7
The latest Part of the Australian Law Journal contains speeches presented at the ALJ’s 90th Anniversary celebrations in the Banco Court of the NSW Supreme Court; a welcome to the co-editors of the “Conveyancing and Property Section” upon the retirement of Emeritus Professor Peter Butt; and a look back at the beginnings of the Journal, as covered by the press and media outlets of the day, in a fascinating piece by the Hon Justice Reginald Barrett. This Part contains the following articles: “The in personam exception to Torrens indefeasibility” – Hon William Gummow AC; “Artificial Intelligence in the courts, legal academia and legal practice” – Lyria Bennett Moses; “Taking advantage of advances in technology to enhance the rule of law” – Robert Size. It also includes the following sections: Current Issues; Letters to the Editor; Conveyancing and Property; International Focus; Competition and Consumer Law; Recent Cases; Book Reviews and Obituary.