2025 Baxt Prize – Business Law Section
By journalalerts on August 18, 2025
Tag: ABLR
Australian Business Law Review update: Vol 49 Pt 4
By journalalerts on January 24, 2022
Posted In: Australian Business Law Review (ABLR) Tagged: 4.9) ABLR AI inventor eligibility AJ George amendment of s 46 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) anti-competitive conduct approaches to causation in unilateral conduct cases Arlen Duke articles Artificial Inventor Project (AIP) Australian Competition and Consumer Commission v Flight Centre Travel Group Ltd Australian Securities and Investments Commission causal link between the firm's conduct and the substantial lessening of competition Causation in Misuse of Market Power Claims under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) changes in business models involving agency arrangements Climate-related Risk Heating Up Down Under Commercial Litigation Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) determining whether a party is an agent Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience dynamics of multi-sided platforms Editorial innovation incentivisation insurance claims handling and settlement services Insurance Claims Handling and Settling as a Financial Service after the Banking Royal Commission insurance industry insurance law reforms JA Tarr Jennifer Chambers Katharine Kemp Leah Ratcliff machine inventors managing inventor status of AI systems Michael Legg Michael Terceiro Misconduct in the Banking misuse of market power monopoly leveraging claims Most Favoured Nation provision multiple causes online booking portals in Europe Paul Latimer price-fixing recommendations of the Royal Commission regulatory challenges created by development and use of artificial intelligence (AI) remedy for unfair contract terms and unconscionability in insurance (Recommendation 4.7) Rhonda L Smith Stephen Thaler Superannuation and Financial Services Industry The Role of Agency in Competition Law: The Australian Flight Centre Case theories of causation in philosophy and in law voluntary codes of conduct (Recommendations 1.15 who and what can be an inventor for patent registration World First: An Australian Court Opens the Door to Inventor Recognition for Artificial Intelligence Systems
Australian Business Law Review update: Vol 49 Pt 3
By journalalerts on October 29, 2021
Posted In: Australian Business Law Review (ABLR) Tagged: AA Tarr ABLR AJ George articles Automated and Electric Vehicles Act 2018 (UK) automated vehicles Autonomous Vehicles: Regulatory Insurance and Liability Issues book review businesses offering to help with unmanageable debt for a fee Candice Lemaitre Commercial Litigation COVID-19 pandemic financial fallout disruption to motor vehicle insurance industry driverless cars Editorial Emily Vale greater vulnerability to promises of a quick fix for debt problems high anxiety levels over finances Implications of the Victorian Class Action Contingency Fee Reforms insurance to cover the use of automated vehicles in automated mode Jason Harris John Emmerig Julie-Anne Tarr liability for injury or damage caused liability transfer to the manufacturer means of obtaining relief or redress for victims of unconscionable transactional behaviour Michael Legg Michael Terceiro Philip H Clarke predatory businesses product liability claims Regulating a Quick Fix for Debt Problems regulation of autonomous vehicles regulation of debt management firms regulatory frameworks Reinventing Bankruptcy Law A History of the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act risk to consumers Rob Nicholls safeguard financially stressed consumers single insurer solution ss 20 and 21 of the Australia Consumer Law Unconscionable Conduct under the Australian Consumer Law: Clarification and Contention Virginia Torrie Vivien Chen
Australian Business Law Review update: Vol 49 Pt 2
By journalalerts on September 17, 2021
Posted In: Australian Business Law Review (ABLR) Tagged: A New Worker Category under the Personal Service Income Regime in Australia ABLR An Impending Avalanche Debt Collection and Consumer Harm After COVID-19 anti-avoidance provisions articles Australian tax laws Christina Allen Commercial Litigation Competition Law and Marketing Regulation corporate tax rate debt collector activity dependent contractors economic abuse economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic Editorial family violence Federal Court Opens Door to Pre-trial Oral Discovery in Australia financial hardship Ian Ramsay indebtedness independent contractors treated as employees for tax purposes legal framework governing the Australian debt collection industry Lindsay Trotman Lucinda O'Brien Matthew Berkahn Merger Movements International Co-ordination of Merger Clearance Policy Michael Legg Michael Terceiro New Zealand Newsletter Paul Ali personal service income protecting consumers from harassment Reckless Trading Makes Its DEBUT in the New Zealand Supreme Court Rex Ahdar Rob Nicholls Vivien Chen
Australian Business Law Review update: Vol 49 Pt 1
By journalalerts on April 30, 2021
Posted In: Australian Business Law Review (ABLR) Tagged: ABLR articles Banking Royal Commission broader corporate purpose Business Interruption Insurance and the COVID-19 Pandemic corporate governance COVID Conundrum: The Influence of Regulatory Regimes on Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions in Australia and India COVID-19 restrictions COVID-19 systemic shock critical defective culture issues cross-border transactions Culture Is Key – An Analysis of Culture-focused Techniques and Tools in the Regulation of Corporations and Financial Institutions Editorial foreign investment freedom of association independent contractors Insurance and transport International Labour Organization 1998 Declaration Julie-Anne Tarr link between defective culture and unethical conduct and wrongdoing in banks and financial institutions mergers and acquisitions laws Michael Terceiro Nicholas Saady organisational culture protecting domestic industries and national security right to collectively bargain Samuel Walpole Security for Workers in an Insecure World of Work: Establishing Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining as Fundamental Rights for Australian Workers share market declines shift away from short-termism Vicky Comino William Isdale workforce in common law countries Zubin Bilimoria
Australian Business Law Review update: Vol 48 Pt 6
By journalalerts on February 17, 2021
Posted In: Australian Business Law Review (ABLR) Tagged: "Carrying on Business in Australia": A Study of Court Judgments A More Assertive Approach by ASIC to Using Information-Gathering Powers and Challenging Privilege Claims? ABLR articles Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) Business Names Registration Act 2011 (Cth) business names with non-English characters Commercial Litigation company law and securities criminal penalties for wage theft Criminalising Wage Theft – Some Observations on Deterrence Enforcement and Compliance criteria to determine if an employees' conduct outside of work justified dismissal Daniel Faber Doing Wrong for the Right Reasons: ASIC and Foreign Language Business Names Editorial Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) federal workplace laws reform Giuseppe Carabetta Ian Ramsay Mark Lewis Michael Legg Michael Terceiro Mihika Upadhyaya Off-duty Misconduct and the Employment Relationship: A Review of the Case Law Olivia Dixon Rose v Telstra Corp Ltd (Rose) significant underpayments of worker wages and entitlements systemic levels of corporate non-compliance with workplace laws Timothy Magarry wage underpayment scandals
Australian Business Law Review update: Vol 48 Pt 5
By journalalerts on January 8, 2021
Posted In: Australian Business Law Review (ABLR) Tagged: A Modern Approach to Regulation: Integrating Law System Architecture and Blockchain Technology in Australia ABLR activism Akshaya Kamalnath An Examination of Legal Values in Statutory Unconscionable Conduct Andrew Godwin Anthony Gray articles Banking and finance behavioural economics Brent Fisse business conduct Competition law and market regulation Editorial environmental issues Free Speech and Secondary Boycott Activity in Australia freedom of political communication informational self-determination/privacy self-management legal regime for social enterprises legal theory legal value judgments Marcus Smith Michael Terceiro Misuse of Market Power: Improving the Australian SLC Model Peter Toy privacy protection Radha M Pull ter Gunne secondary boycott provisions Social Enterprise and Equity Crowdfunding – A Proposal to Share Legal Infrastructure social enterprise movement statutory "normative standards" statutory interpretation and application the "legal standard" and the "normative" function of the law The Illusion of Control use of consent in privacy and data protection use of personal data
Australian Business Law Review update: Vol 48 Pt 4
By journalalerts on September 1, 2020
Posted In: Australian Business Law Review (ABLR) Tagged: "member outcomes" "no fault" enforcement regime ABLR articles Bronwyn McCredie Cheryl Foong copyright infringement Editorial Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975 (Cth) From Little Things Big Things Grow: Australia's Evolving Copyright Site-Blocking Regime goodwill restraint income redistribution Joanne Gray Kerrie Sadiq Luddite movement M Scott Donald Michael Tamvakologos Michael Terceiro Might Superannuation Trustees Owe a Duty to Merge? national interest test Nicholas Felstead online copyright enforcement public goods and social welfare spending regulatory initiatives Restraints of Trade Act 1976 (NSW) shifting tax base from labour and expenditure to capital six main lines of defence taxation taxes on automation technological advancements The Australian and United States Approaches to National Security and Foreign Investment Regulation The Challenges of Industrial Revolutions: Luddism and Tax Reform The Frontiers of Restraint of Trade Litigation Protecting Goodwill: Policy Principles and Practice trusteeship
Australian Business Law Review update: Vol 48 Pt 3
By journalalerts on August 14, 2020
Posted In: Australian Business Law Review (ABLR) Tagged: "active" mediation ABLR Are the "Efficiently Honestly and Fairly" and Unconscionable Conduct Civil Penalty Provisions Equally as Effective in Combating Unfair Practices By Licensees? articles ASIC v King – The High Court Clarifies Who Is an "Officer" of a Corporation ASIC v Westpac Banking Corp (No 2) Australian Treasury Department Brent Fisse collective bargaining arrangements company law and securities Competition law and market regulation Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) Editorial Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) Fair Work Bargaining for Police: A Proposal for Reform franchise relationships Giuseppe Carabetta guaranteed closure mechanism international Right to Repair movement Jennifer Chambers Jessica Zarkovic Kanchana Kariyawasam Leanne Wiseman liability for contravention of the civil remedy provisions Lindsay Stankovic Lucas Davey mediation-arbitration model of interest arbitration Michael Gvozdenovic Michael Legg Michael Terceiro National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 (Cth) Natural Meaning Equals Natural Monopoly: New Declaration Criteria for Access to Services under the Competition and Consumer Act negotiated or mediated outcomes for police officers negotiation timelines Olivia Dixon police collective bargaining disputes quality of franchise work regulation of work and employment in franchise networks regulatory behaviour of franchisees and franchisors s 12CB of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 (Cth) Tess Hardy The Mandatory Repair Scheme for Motor Vehicles 2019: Australia's First Response to the International Right to Repair Movement? tripartite arbitration panel design utility and benefits of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) wage theft Working for the Brand: The Regulation of Employment in Franchise Systems in Australia
Australian Business Law Review update: Vol 48 Pt 2
By journalalerts on July 17, 2020
Posted In: Australian Business Law Review (ABLR) Tagged: "fees for no service" scandal 2018 Senate Inquiry into drone operations 2019 Banking Royal Commission A Tarr ABLR airlines Alex Jane Andrew Godwin Anthony Song articles audio-visual link platforms Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Australian Consumer Law Civil Aviation Safety Amendment (Remotely Piloted Aircraft and Model Aircraft – Registration and Accreditation) Regulations 2019 (Cth) class exemption power closure of borders collaborative responses commercial drone use Commercial Litigation and COVID-19 – the Role and Limits of Technology consumer rights contract law courts and ADR services Courts Mediation and COVID-19 COVID Collaboration and Competition Policy: Authorisation vs Forbearance as Crisis Responses COVID-19 employment law amendments COVID-19 JobKeeper and Stand Down under the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth): A Review of the Law COVID-19 pandemic credit vouchers crisis-management approach David Howarth demand conditions deployment technology disruptions to supply chains distribution arrangements doctrine of frustration domestic and international air travel Dr Victoria Lambropoulos drone registration and training requirements Editorial electronic filing systems Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth) force majeure clauses franchising Franchising Code of Conduct Frustratingly Unclear? The Interplay Between Common Law Statute and the ACL in Assessing Consumer Rights in a Time of Crisis good faith obligation granting urgent interim authorisations Harriet Alexander health professionals J Tarr Jeannie Marie Paterson Jenny Buchan John Zeleznikow K Paynter long-term efforts to preserve competition material adverse change clauses Michael Legg online hearings online shoppers online trials Philip H Clarke post-pandemic economic contraction and recovery prepayment for goods and services Prepayments redundancy restrictions on business activity Rob Nicholls service contracts service-providing industries short-term measures social isolation measures sporting and entertainment events and fixtures stand down statutory incursions on remedy Tania Sourdin technology the ACL and the ASIC Act The Challenges of Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic for Australia’s Franchise Sector The Contractual Impact of COVID-19 on Corporate and Financial Transactions Transport Drones and Regulatory Challenges: Risk Accountability Meets COVID Fast Tracking of a Critical Industry Victoria Lambropoulos