Insights for February 2019

05/02/2019 - Financial Services Royal Commission part 1 - the overview 06/02/2019 - Financial Services Royal Commission part 2 - Culture 07/02/2019 - Can two employers agree to not poach each other's employees? 07/02/2019 - Changes to registry fees as part of a modernised registry system, coming soon for Australian businesses 07/02/2019 - Commission unable to rescue vulnerable employees from indirectly discriminatory terms in firefighters' EA 07/02/2019 - Critical information: Are you ready for the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act's January reporting deadline – Part 2 07/02/2019 - Do I have to defend all of these? What happens when a company faces multiple shareholder class actions 07/02/2019 - Environment and Planning 5 Minute Fix 01 07/02/2019 - Five years in: the upshot of the Fair Work Commission's 4-yearly review of modern awards 07/02/2019 - Have you infringed copyright? Spotlight on what you need to prove if you're an innocent infringer 07/02/2019 - Important commercial purpose of D&O liability insurance upheld in "insolvency exclusion" case 07/02/2019 - Labor to overhaul federal environmental law if elected 07/02/2019 - NSW biodiversity offsets to be recognised in amended bilateral agreement 07/02/2019 - Out of tune with Australia's franchising laws - Ultra Tune fined $2.6m in landmark decision 07/02/2019 - Powering up: Australian Government moves on trillion-dollar lithium-ion opportunity 07/02/2019 - TGA spotlight on medical devices – consultation periods close soon 07/02/2019 - Unreasonable refusal of Calderbank offer proves costly for employee in adverse action proceedings 07/02/2019 - We have been warned: tighter policing of the Notifiable Data Breaches Scheme in the wake of the Banking Royal Commission 08/02/2019 - Financial Services Royal Commission part 3 - A new regulatory frontier – ASIC enforcement in a post-Royal Commission environment 12/02/2019 - New decision rejects long-standing arguments concerning greenhouse gas emissions 14/02/2019 - Financial Services Royal Commission part 4 - Remuneration 21/02/2019 - Comments sought on new environmental offences and prohibitions on water licences for NT petroleum activities 21/02/2019 - Green light for the "spare parts" defence to design infringement 21/02/2019 - IP Australia "Rokt": Federal Court says computer-implemented invention is patentable – Commissioner appeals 21/02/2019 - It's a long fall from the top: Building Commissioner to keep an eagle eye on high-rise construction in NSW 21/02/2019 - Major projects & construction 5 Minute Fix 27 21/02/2019 - NT offshore petroleum industry gets (some) relief from nuclear waste prohibitions 21/02/2019 - Open banking one step closer with Consumer Data Right bill introduced in Parliament 21/02/2019 - The path to standardised contracts in NSW 21/02/2019 - When are employers not required to pay redundancy payments? 21/02/2019 - Financial Services Royal Commission part 5 - A new regulatory frontier – APRA's approach to supervision and enforcement in a post-Royal Commission environment 22/02/2019 - IP licence restrictions losing their safe harbour from competition laws – so review them now 25/02/2019 - Financial Services Royal Commission part 6 - Competition in home lending 27/02/2019 - ASX Corporate Governance Principles give a clearer framework for corporate Australia – and some work to do 28/02/2019 - ACCC's 2019 priorities: strong enforcement action with a focus on anti-competitive practices and consumer law penalties