On 29 June 2012 the Tax Laws Amendment (2012 Measures No. 2) Act 2012 received royal assent. The legislation has been introduced to expand the director penalty regime; making directors now personally liable for their…
Directors’ Personal Liability for Company PAYG and Superannuation Obligations | Hunt & Hunt
On 20 December 2011 the Hon Bill Shorten MP announced the appointment of a three-member panel to review the operation of the Fair Work Act 2009 (FW Act) and related legislation. In particular, the Panel…
Review of the Fair Work Act Released Yesterday | Hunt & Hunt
Our article “Raising the bar? The new patent law reforms and their impact on patentability of genetic material” (“August article”), published in the August 2011 issue of the AIPLB, explored upcoming reforms to Australian patent…
Government Signals Reforms to Address Concerns Over Gene Patents | Hunt & Hunt
From 1 August 2012, several container shipping lines have reduced the “free” container time from 10 days to seven days. The CBFCA and the VTA have already expressed their significant concern regarding the move and…
CTT Container Detention Fees Likely to Become a Bigger Pressure Point | Hunt & Hunt
Brian Wilson, the Chairman of the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB), told a Senate Committee on 16 August 2012 that FIRB will publish guidelines to clarify requirements for FIRB approval for investments in Australian entities…
Change of Policy on FIRB Approval for Foreign State-Owned Enterprises | Hunt & Hunt
On 28 June 2012, the federal government introduced the Tax Laws Amendment (2012 Measures No. 4) Bill 2012 (Bill) into parliament which, if passed in its existing form, will drastically alter the tax treatment of…
Living Away from Home Benefit Reforms: Are you Prepared for the Changes? | Hunt & Hunt
Cybercrime is a growing threat as we exchange more and more information online. Cybercrime has already overtaken the drug trade worldwide as the most profitable form of all crimes due to the opportunities that cybercriminals…
Cyber Police to get More Powers to Monitor our Activity in Cyberspace | Hunt & Hunt
In very recent times there have been a number of dumping and subsidy investigations and associated measures affecting materials used in the construction, manufacturing and automotive industries. This has included the following: Dumping and subsidy…
Australian Industry Steels Itself for Another Dumping Investigation | Hunt & Hunt
Enterprise agreement “opt-out” clauses are not a safe bet but that there are alternative ways to reward and engage employees covered by enterprise agreements (EAs). Recently, Fair Work Australia (FWA) has put an end to…
The High Court of Australia has now confirmed that when a union delegate was disciplined over misuse of email, his employer was motivated by the reasons it gave in evidence and not the employee’s role…
High Court Says it’s About the Known-Knowns, not the Known-Unknowns | Hunt & Hunt
In the matter of Partridge v Hobart City Council & Ors [2012] TASFC 3 delivered 27 July 2012, the plaintiff brought an action in negligence for damages for personal injuries sustained to her back, knee…
Readers would be aware of progressive developments regarding the investigation which has led to the imposition of dumping and countervailing measures on some aluminium road wheels exported from the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”). However,…
Measures on Aluminium Road Wheels to be Subject to Review | Hunt & Hunt
On 12 September, the Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Bill Shorten, released the paper “Strengthening APRA’s Crisis Management Powers” for public consultation. The paper forms part of the ongoing review process of Australia’s financial…
Consultation Paper released on APRA’s Crisis Management Powers | Hunt & Hunt
Jail time for a Facebook stunt goes to show that what you do with social media can have real world legal consequences. It is important to recognise that the laws that apply in the real…
Facebook Users get Tagged by Judge for Unacceptable Behaviour | Hunt & Hunt
On 3 September 2012, Justice Besanko of the Federal Court ordered the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (“CBA”) to pay $317,500 in damages to one of its former executives for CBA’s breach of this implied contractual…
Employers: Ignore Employment Policies at Your Peril | Hunt & Hunt
Our article earlier this year highlighted the potential for businesses to be caught by the widening of responsibility for “safety and fairness” and remuneration in the Australian road transport industry as a result of the creation of…
Speak up – The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal Seeks Input on its First Annual Work Program | Hunt & Hunt
Fair Work Australia (FWA) continues to treat social media terminations with caution, but with a clear signal that its tolerance of social media ignorance will not last. Background In July this year, we reported that…
Social Media Termination Still Unfair, but Next Time not so Lucky | Hunt & Hunt
The recently created Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal (“RSRT”) issued a statement seeking written submissions on matters that should be included in its Annual Work Program. Submissions were received from individuals and organisations, such as unions and…
The Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal Receives Submissions on its First Annual Work Program | Hunt & Hunt
Hunt & Hunt has been closely involved with the ongoing investigation by the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (“Customs”) into alleged dumping of hot rolled coil steel (“HRCS”) exported from Japan,hot-rolledlic of Korea, Malaysia…
Customs issue SEF and PAD in relation to alleged dumping of HRCS from Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia and Taiwan: Get those securities in place! | Hunt & Hunt
The Government has also introduced two bills to replace the current general employee entitlements and redundancy scheme (GEERS) with an equivalent legislative scheme and to extend transfer of business protections to state public servants. Proposed…
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