The latest Part of the Australian Business Law Review includes the following articles: “‘Why Not Litigate?’ – The Royal Commission, ASIC and the Future of the Enforcement Pyramid” – Michael Legg and Stephen Speirs; “The Lawfulness of the Dismissal/Termination of an Employee Who Has Expressed ‘Unwelcome’ Religious Views” – Anthony Gray; “Online Auctions and Consumer Protection in the United Kingdom and Australia: The Value of Transparency” – Jodi Gardner and Kanchana Kariyawasam; and “The Legal Implications of E-commerce for the Australian Franchise Sector” – Zhanna Kremez, Kanchana Kariyawasam and Lorelle Frazer. Also in this Part are the following sections: Consumer Protection: “Penalising the Inclusion of Unfair Terms in Standard Form Small Business Contracts – A Critical Analysis” – Mark Lewis; Industrial and Workplace Relations Law: “Small Business and Unfair Dismissal: A Review of the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman’s Proposed Reforms” – Victoria Lambropoulos; and Book Review: “The Legitimacy and Responsiveness of Industry Rule-making”, by Karen Lee – Reviewed by Rob Nicholls.
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The latest Part of the Australian Business Law Review includes tributes to the late Professor Bob Baxt AO. It contains the following articles: “Pre-contractual Due Diligence by Franchisees and Independent Small Business Buyers” – Lorelle Frazer, Jenny Buchan, Scott Weaven, Binh Tran-Nam and Anthony Grace; “The Enterprise Risk Theory of Vicarious Liability” – Anthony Gray; and “Lessons for Market Definition from Air Cargo” – Rhonda L Smith and Arlen Duke. It also contains the following sections: Competition and Consumer Law – Brent Fisse; and Book Review.
Posted in Australian Business Law Review (ABLR), Journals, Update Summaries | Tagged “enterprise risk” theory, “market in Australia” definition, ABLR, Air Cargo case, algorithmic market coordination, Anthony Grace, Anthony Gray, Arlen Duke, Binh Tran-Nam, book review, Brent Fisse, competition and consumer law, Dr Rob Nicholls, FC Simon, franchisees and independent business owners, Jenny Buchan, Lorelle Frazer, Meta-Regulation in Practice: Beyond Normative Views of Morality and Rationality, pre-commitment due diligence, Professor Bob Baxt AO, Rhonda L Smith, s 4E of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), Scott Weaven, small business, vicarious liability |
The latest Part of the Australian Business Law Review includes the following articles: “Circular priority conundrums – cutting the Gordian knot” – Bruce Whittaker; “Extraterritorial application of Pt IV of the Competition and Consumer Act” – Ian B Stewart; and “Businesses are people too? Anomalies in widening the ambits of “consumer” under consumer credit law” – Franci Cantatore and Brenda Marshall. Also in this Part are the following sections: Competition Law and Market Regulation; Commercial Litigation; and Contracts and Restitution.
Posted in Australian Business Law Review (ABLR), Update Summaries | Tagged ABLR, Brenda Marshall, Bruce Whittaker, Commercial Litigation, competition, Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth), Competition law and market regulation, consumer credit law, Contracts and Restitution, extraterritorial application, Franci Cantatore, Ian B Stewart, Jacqueline Cahill, Laura Keily, litigation funding, market, Michael Borsky, Michael Legg, Personal Property Securities Act 2009, preferred entitlement, priority problems, provate property rights, public interest, Robert Baxt AO, Schwartz v Hadid [2013] NSWCA 89, small business, Stephen Corones, United Kingdom |
The May 2011 Issue of the Australian Tax Review includes interesting articles on the difficulties of taxing trust income after the High Court decision in FCT v Bamford, the role of context in the construction of statutes and the amended concessions to small business for capital gains tax. This issue also includes a book review of Australia’s Future Tax System: The Prospects After Henry by Chris Evans, Richard Krever and Peter Mellor.
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