Business Law and Corporate Law

Shareholder disputes arise from circumstances both anticipated and unanticipated at the time of formation of a business relationship.

The disposal of shares will generally be perceived to be in contention with schemes if done without adequate communication.

On 2 May 2025, the Austrian Ministry of Finance published a draft bill of the Budget Accompanying Act proposing significant amendments to the Austrian Real Estate Transfer Tax Act...

On 27 March 2024, Australia's climate disclosure regime moved a significant step closer to implementation, with the federal government's introduction of proposed legislation into Parliament.

The Australian Government recently released an exposure draft of the legislation to implement mandatory climate-related financial disclosures (Draft Legislation).

On 14 November 2023, the Australian Government released what is described as the first of three tranches of proposed draft legislation implementing the QAR recommendations.

On 3 May 2025, the incumbent Labor government, led by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, won re-election to a second consecutive term in office.

Shareholder disputes arise from circumstances both anticipated and unanticipated at the time of formation of a business relationship.

As a reporting entity, you must identify roles within your governance structure.

In November 2009, the Federal Court of Australia (in Hine v New South Wales Land and Housing Corporation [2009] FCA 1242) considered whether or not a legal remedy was available for perceived injustices arising from a direction given by the Department of Housing (DOH) to its contractors, in circumstances where losses claimed were pure economic losses arising from dealings in a wholly commercial context.

On 21 April 2010 the High Court handed down its unanimous decision that damages are not available for the ‘loss of chance’ of a better medical outcome where the defendant’s negligence was merely a possible but less than a probable cause of the plaintiff’s damage.

In this case, the NSW Court of Appeal confirmed that the prima facie measure of damages where there are defects caused by a breach of a contractual obligation is the cost of rectification, provided the works to be carried out are both necessary under the contract and reasonable, affirming the principle espoused in Bellgrove v Eldridge.