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Commercial Property & Development

• COVID-19 – update re commercial tenancies
• COVID-19 – offsetting the impact on commercial tenants & landlords
• Why is Kaufland departing Australia?

Competition Law & Regulatory Compliance

• UNFAIR CONTRACT TERMS – WHAT CAN SMALL BUSINESSES DO ABOUT THEM?
• Jenny Craig tips the scales over misleading ad
• Court hammers builder over online reviews
• MLA ad banned following independent review
• TPG fined for infringing spam laws
• Court rules Meriton manipulated online reviews
• Advertising regulation and influencers – AANA revises Code of Ethics
• Harvey Norman franchises under ACCC fire
• Nurofen’s targeted pain
• Australia Day ad controversy – just a beef up?
• Jetstar & Virgin taken for a ride over price dripping
• Promoters win … again
• Chrisco’s lay-by terms breach consumer law
• New guidance on advertising rules for video bloggers in the UK
• Signing documents in the digital age
• Snapshot: recent consumer law enforcement activity
• It’s official: trade promotion permits no longer required in Victoria
• Lessons in marketing: the Woolworths/Carrspace Anzac campaign
• ASTW bust up over ‘double dip’ prize draw
• Energy resellers spanked for misleading & deceptive conduct – again
• Nurofen cops targeted pain from the ACCC
• Energy providers zapped by misleading claims
• Extended warranty claim comes out in the wash
• KHQ Approved/Hard Edge Media event – “Brands in glasshouses”
• Promoters the winners under changes to Victoria’s gaming legislation

Construction & Infrastructure

• Victorian domestic building insurance: new penalties to apply to uninsured builders

Corporate & Commercial

• Revamping Australia’s foreign investment regime
• Australia’s 2024 Merger Reform Proposal: An overview
• ASIC’S latest tilt at crypto promoters – that certainly blocked some earning!
• ‘Layered advice’ & hawking leads to cancellation, banning and fine – floggers flogged!
• ASIC consults on IDPS class orders – It’s easier when investors say what goes!
• ASIC consults regarding managed investment scheme class orders – re removal/equal treatment
• Treasury begins review of managed investment schemes regulation – funds fast forward!
• ASIC begins civil penalty proceedings against licensee for hire – lights out for Lanterne!
• AFSL exemptions for foreign financial services providers extended – they’ll get there eventually!
• ASIC extends financial reporting & AGM deadlines for unlisted entities
• ASIC admonitions of financial advisers – You can’t say you weren’t warned!
• ASIC consults on AFS licensing for CCIV
• Director Identification Numbers – What directors need to know
• Permissible contact – exceptions to hawking provisions registered
• Financial product advice after the Westpac case
• KHQ acts for Olikka in acquisition by Accenture
• Not such a big deal? Litigation funders to have an AFSL
• Revisions to temporary capital raising measure
• Managing solvency amid the COVID-19 crisis
• FORCE MAJEURE IN THE ERA OF COVID-19
• Kleenmaid shadow director taken to the cleaners
• Thinking of exiting? Check your shareholders agreement
• KHQ advises on sale of travel tech business Rome2rio
• “They didn’t tell me that!” Disclosure regimes for financial products face renewed scrutiny
• Google fined €50m by French personal data regulator
• CoOL challenge to “Australian-made” claims
• Hello Australian Financial Complaints Authority – what now?
• Financial services – may the licence be with you …
• Use of restricted terminology by financial advisers – ASIC strikes again!
• Dover Financial – lessons for authorised representatives
• GDPR – impact on Australian businesses
• Insolvency reforms set to benefit directors & companies
• Case weak, fines are heavy: NZ National Party ordered to pay Eminem damages
• Federal Court rules on unfair contract terms
• Director Identification Number to battle phoenixing activities
• Would you clean a portaloo for free WiFi?
• Lululemon pinged for refusing refunds on lemons
• Health insurer misled customers – ACCC
• Are you on the ACCC’s radar?
• Spotlight on cartels – the ACCC wasn’t kidding
• Europcar rental terms declared unfair
• Hertz hurting after ACCC probe
• Clinica cops huge fine for misleading migrants
• ACCC enforcement targets for 2016
• Not proven – egg cartel claim dismissed

COVID-19

• The COVID-19 Vaccination Update – Can you mandate the COVID-19 vaccine at your workplace?

Data Privacy, Cyber & Digital

• Respect workers’ privacy when spying on them. Haha. What?
• Draft Australian data privacy reform released or “beggars can’t be choosers”?
• The transport sector advances with automated recognition but compliance is lost in transit
• The amended “Snoopers’ Charter” will help law enforcement more rapidly identify intelligence insights from vast quantities of data

Family & Relationship Law

• “If only I’d listened” – why a binding financial agreement is essential to protect your assets
• Family violence and coercive control 
• Combatting the crisis of family violence in Australia – finding another way
• Major changes in how parenting orders are considered by the Court
• An end to the presumption of equal shared parental responsibility? Important changes to the Family Law Act
• Use of audio or video recordings as evidence in family law and family violence matters
• What happens when elderly parents transfer property to their children “upon trust”?
• Reassessing the approach to gender dysphoria cases
• Amendments to the Family Law Act – is there more to come?
• Equal shared parental responsibility – proposed changes to the Family Law Act
• The inquest into the murder of Hannah Clarke and her three children
• Family violence and the workplace – the impact of flexible working arrangements
• The new FCFCOA: Pre-action procedures and managing client expectations in our new Court
• The vexed vax issue and the Family Court
• Recent High Court decision regarding breakdown of a de facto relationship
• Tax issues to consider in family law as the financial year closes…
• New family law rules – what you need to know
• Can I be forced to vaccinate my children?
• Family Court merger – how will it work?
• The Criminalisation of Coercive Control
• Lottery winnings – yours, mine or ours?
• Defining the de facto relationship
• Abolition of the Family Court of Australia – what does it mean?
• Urgent family law applications during Stage 4
• Parenting arrangements in stage 4 lock down
• The role of arbitration in family law
• COVID-19 update – gradual resumption of face-to-face court hearings
• Family violence amidst the COVID-19 crisis
• COVID-19 – navigating parenting arrangements
• COVID-19 – conduct of family law matters
• Fire, coronavirus … and family separation
• The scourge of family violence
• Family wealth – inheritance protection agreements
• After separation … who gets the pets?
• Family violence – the flaws in our system
• Financial Agreements … or Friendly Agreements?
• The role of an Independent Children’s Lawyer
• Travelling overseas with children post-separation
• KHQ Lawyers adds principal to family law team
• Child abduction – the Hague Convention
• Changes to family violence intervention orders
• High Court decides status of sperm donor in landmark case
• Who’s the parent? High Court to rule on pivotal sperm donor case
• Who gets the children at Christmas?
• Changes to Child Support 2018: Part 3 – Binding Child Support Agreements
• When a one night stand results in motherhood
• Changes to Child Support 2018: Part 2 – interim care determinations
• My Health Record – privacy concerns for children of separated parents
• Changes to Child Support 2018: Part 1- amended tax assessments
• Grandparents’ rights under the Family Law Act
• LGBTI equality – YES vote not the end of the fight
• Overhaul of the family court system
• Amendments to family violence laws now in force
• Gender dysphoria – Court issues landmark decision
• JOY Law – surrogacy in Australia
• JOY Law – separation and parenting arrangements
• JOY Law – donor agreements & planning a rainbow family
• JOY Law – what does marriage equality mean for those who married overseas?
• Married overseas? You’d better read this
• JOY Law: the scourge that is family violence
• Settify: utilising technology for better client service
• JOY Law: transgender youth & legal rights
• JOY Law: who gets the pets? Property settlement when relationships end
• Court rules Binding Financial Agreements invalid
• JOY Law: intersex people and the law
• JOY Law: Jewish Community responds to marriage equality debate
• JOY Law: marriage equality and religious freedom
• JOY Law: defamation, vilification & the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey
• JOY Law: LGBTI parents and donors
• Issues associated with recognising LGBTI relationships
• Surrogacy – court rules couple are not “legal parents”
• Introducing JOY Law in conjunction with JOY 94.9
• Proposed amendments to the Family Law Act – family violence
• LGBTQI Will exclusion – how to fight back!

Food & Beverage

• Legal risks in claiming “ocean bound” plastic during the ACCC’s greenwashing campaign
• When can non-alcoholic beverages legally claim to be “alcohol free” or “zero alcohol”?
• What are the food regulatory priorities in 2024?
• Can oats ever claim to be “gluten free”?
• Has your sports food become a therapeutic good overnight?
• Are permitted nutrition content claims for alcoholic products being … expanded?
• When is a food not a food? The mushroom case study
• How do health messages change your reasonable consumer?
• Why the entire food and supplement industry ought to weigh in on sports food review
• When do food companies have to remove “Return to store” recycling statements from their soft plastic packaging?
• Changes to the Victorian liquor licensing regime create major barriers for online liquor sellers
• In the USA, the definition of “healthy food” is changing – how does this compare to Australia?
• Making and marketing healthier food in Australia
• THE ACCC GETS AGGRESSIVE IN ITS ENFORCEMENT OF THE NEW DAIRY CODE OF CONDUCT
• When is beer… “beer”? Defining alcoholic beverages differently for tax purposes
• Is lactoferrin suddenly banned in food?
• Health products – what products can influencers now promote?
• Anti-competitive conduct: The dangers of seeking exclusivity
• Do vegan & vegetarian marketing descriptors need regulating?
• How to get adaptogens to the Australian market
• Is my food natural or not?
• Is kava coming… or being stopped?
• Regulatory confusion around diet products could become a lot clearer
• Product labelling – challenges when successful craft products are acquired by bigger fish
• What does India’s proposed vegan standard mean for Australian vegan product?
• KHQ strengthens food & beverage capability with key hire
• Food manufacturer fined for safety breach
• Gluten free(ish): 1 in 40 “gluten free” foods fail to meet Australian standards
• Mixing & wholesaling cocktails – an excise sobering experience!
• Fake honey products – producers in a sticky situation
• Safety incidents – how to prevent serious injuries in the kitchen
• Egg producer fined for false “free range” claims

Insolvency & Restructuring

• Insolvency Reforms – Key to survival in 2021

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

• Federal Court rules PayPal’s contract term unfair: key takeaways & implications for business contracts
• In good faith: how seeking legal advice can shield you from civil penalties
• Letting Sleeping Ducks lie: Supreme Court looks under the bed but finds no shareholder oppression
• Class actions: is the funding model in Australia inching towards US-style contingency fees?
• Emojis are free – how you use them may carry a price 😔
• Are you a risk to biosecurity? Director liability for breaches of the Biosecurity Act 2015
• Privilege waived for documents voluntarily disclosed to ASIC
• Damages by another name: recovering litigation funding costs in class actions
• Class action settlement approval: fair & reasonable by any other name 
• The vexed question of privilege – Optus loses bid to keep Deloitte report under wraps
• New Aim: Full Court provides clarity on expert evidence
• Collective bargaining – change is on the way
• What to do if served with a subpoena
• Liquidators’ unfair preference claims – the basics
• Giving evidence at a Royal Commission
• JOY Law – litigation mitigation
• High Court refuses special leave to appeal, “ultimate consumer” test confirmed (for now)
• Significant changes to the Bankruptcy Act
• Can a restraint of trade apply to referrers?
• AFS licence holder cops penalty for breach of the best interests duty
• You’ve been served with a Statutory Demand – what next?
• Would Port Power have tort the Suns a lesson?
• Statutory Demands – the pros and cons
• Litigation in Victoria – the Civil Procedure Act
• Discovery 101
• You’re owed money…what next??

Private Wealth

• Private wealth update – December 2023
• ATO’s further assault on loans – principal of trust assessed and penalised
• ATO penalises professional for defective internal loan documents – HNW groups beware!
• Government “overshoots” small business concessions
• JOY Law – what happens if you get left out of a Will?
• Can an unsent text message with a smiley emoji be a valid Will?
• What is a Testamentary Trust and why should I have one?
• Cloudy with a good chance of GST
• Key changes to stamp duty concessions from 1 July 2017
• Carry forward losses – a blessing or a curse?
• Can an accounting firm use the “Code of Professional Conduct” to bludgeon an ambitious employee?

Publicity

• KHQ appoints new Principal Solicitor, elevates 10
• KHQ Lawyers elevates two to principal
• KHQ promotes two to principal solicitor
• In pursuit of excellence – KHQ implements Net Promoter System

Superannuation & Financial Services

• Super Alert – 11 October 2024: Commonwealth penalty unit increase, new cyber security Bills, ATO’s updated SFT protocol
• Super Alert – 4 October 2024: APRA industry stats, updated AUSTRAC guidance, Treasury issues draft amends to super  laws
• Super Alert – 26 September 2024: Reissue of RG 121, APRA Comprehensive Product Performance Package, inquiry into collapse of wealth management companies
• Court finds superannuation trustee engaged in greenwashing
• Super Alert – 20 September 2024: superannuation on paid parental leave, first home super saver scheme, privacy reforms, payday super
• Super Alert – 13 September 2024: sustainability reports, adverse genetic test ban, timing re ATO reporting obligations
• Super Alert – 6 September 2024: CPS 230 registered; derivative transaction rules amendments
• Super Alert – 30 August 2024: ASIC greenwashing crackdown; APRA annual performance test results; latest super stats
• Super Alert – 23 August 2024: climate-related financial disclosure Bill passed; new Bill re super on paid parental leave
• Super Alert – 16 August 2024: APRA cybersecurity weakness insights; ASIC v ASX; new fraud/scam standard
• Super Alert – 9 August 2024: ASIC instruments extension; ATO remedial power; AASB climate-related financial disclosure standards
• Super Alert – 2 August 2024: AFCA FY24 complaints data; disclosure methods for ETFs & quoted ED securities
• Super Alert – 26 July 2024: First Home Super Saver changes; second DDO prosecution; Payment Times Reporting Scheme
• Super Alert – 19 July 2024: adviser permanently banned; ASIC guide re virtual-only meetings; extra conditions imposed on RSE licensee
• Super Alert – 12 July 2024: Final rules for FAR; changes to NALI rules; Quality of Advice changes; mFund closure
• Super Alert – 5 July 2024: Quality of Advice reforms; SPS 515 updates; updated AFCA rules & guidelines
• Super Alert – 28 June 2024: new Treasury consultation; ATO income stream ruling; Bill re NALI/NALE exemption for large funds
• Breaking down Braz
• Super Alert – 21 June 2024: sustainable finance reforms; new APRA ‘prudential handbook’; tax withholding instrument
• Super Alert – 14 June 2024: CPS 230 guidance; Your Future Your Super FAQs; amended SRS 101; new Treasury consultation
• Super Alert – 7 June 2024: greenwashing judgement; Payment Times Reporting Scheme; AG’s miscell measures Bill passed
• Super Alert – 31 May 2024: Quality of Advice Review Bill amends; latest APRA super stats
• Super Alert – 24 May 2024: regulatory focus on scam risk; AI; guidance re financial adviser registration
• Super Alert – 17 May 2024: financial reporting reminders; Federal Budget; access to super for first home buyers
• Super Alert – 10 May 2024: ASIC review re member protection processes; ALRC webinar re legislative review
• Super Alert – 3 May 2024: AML/CTF reform; death benefit claims review; new SFT reporting form
• Super Alert – 26 April 2024: mandatory climate reporting; new ATO materials for release authorities
• Super Alert – 19 April 2024: illegal early access to super; unclaimed money reporting; new SDT FAQs
• Super Alert – 12 April 2024: Federal Court decision re penalty for s912A non-compliance; reminders re Govt consultations
• Super Alert – 5 April 2024: Quality of Advice Review; modern awards super clause; court decisions & new Bills
• Super Alert – 22 March 2024: Treasury releases draft regulations re tax rates for high super balances
• Super Alert – 15 March 2024: FAR info package; super splitting; consultation re annual performance test
• Super Alert – 8 March 2024: FAR instruments registered; paid parental leave; court decisions re death benefits & defined benefit pensions
• Super Alert – 1 March 2024: AFSL guidance re conflicted remuneration; greenwashing infringement notice; updated super stats
• Super Alert – 23 February 2024: ASIC choice investment options report; APRA ORFR standards amendments
• Super Alert – 16 February 2024: Judicial advice in relation to “single trust” deed clause
• Super Alert – 9 February 2024: updated SDT & member outcomes assessment FAQs; amended AFCA rules; super stats
• Super Alert – 2 February 2024: ASIC & APRA enforcement priorities, legislative updates, exposure drafts & court decisions
• Super Alert – 15 December 2023: annual super stats; increase in financial hardship requests; new consultations
• Super Alert – 8 December 2023: Quality of Advice review; concessional tax rates; Senate inquiry
• Super Alert – 1 December 2023: APRA data collection proposal; genetic testing – life insurance; updated SDT FAQs
• Super Alert – 24 November 2023: ASIC 2024 enforcement priorities; APRA revises SPS 510; legislation update
• Super Alert – 17 November 2023: objective of superannuation Bill; cyber security; financial advice reforms
• Super Alert – 10 November 2023: ASIC supervisory cost recovery levy; extension to s29QC relief; AFCA complaints guide
• Super Alert – 3 November 2023: sustainable finance strategy; data breaches and AML/CTF; reportable situations regime insights
• Super Alert – 27 October 2023: superannuation CEO roundtable; downsizer contributions; NALI/NALE reforms
• Super Alert – 20 October 2023: ASIC breach reporting rules re M&D conduct; CPS 900 & CPS 190; PayDay Super
• Super Alert – 13 October 2023: APRA annual report; ‘Payday Super’ consultation; SDT strategic forum
• Super Alert – 6 October 2023: SDT FAQs; quarterly super stats; FAR information package; privacy; NSW Court of Appeal TPD decision
• Super Alert – 28 September 2023: ATO ruling; RG 277; AFCA appeal re TPD benefit decline
• Super Alert – 22 September 2023: SPS 515 reforms; FAR Bill enacted; FLS Regs; NSW Crimes Act re SFTs
• Super Alert – 15 September 2023: affordable housing package; Bill re NALI/NALE exemption for large funds
• Super Alert – 8 September 2023: FAR Bills; Treasury consultations; 4 x ASIC instruments registered re MIS
• Super Alert – 1 September 2023: super performance test results 2023; APRA & ASIC corporate plans
• Unfair contract terms: new civil penalties & deemed significant breaches for AFSL holders
• Super Alert – 25 August 2023: June super stats; information security; SFTs & NSW Crimes Act
• Super Alert – 18 August 2023: DDO complaints reporting; RSE licensee class exemption; ASIC enforcement priorities
• Super Alert – 11 August 2023: MySuper Information Paper; greenwashing prosecution; retirement income covenant; managed investment schemes
• Super Alert – 4 August 2023: annual performance test changes; CPS 511 (Remuneration); Report 767
• Super Alert – 28 July 2023: ATO first home super saver scheme statistics; AFCA updated trust deeds fact sheet
• Super Alert – 21 July 2023: CPS 230, SPG 530, updated SDT FAQs, retirement income covenant
• Super Alert – 14 July 2023: FRAA report, Chapter 2M, greenwashing, CSLR regulations
• Super Alert – 7 July 2023: Compensation Scheme of Last Resort; cyber security assessment findings; consultation re NALI & CGT
• Super Alert – 30 June 2023: SFT Crimes Act; Chapter 2M reporting; Interim Report C; climate related disclosure matters
• Super Alert – 23 June 2023: financial adviser registration, CSLR, SDT, FRAA, NALI/NALE
• Super Alert – 16 June 2023: ALRC recommendations; Quality of Advice Review; ASIC cyber survey; SDT forum
• Super Alert – 9 June 2023: ESG considerations re investing; financial advisor registration; greenwashing
• Super Alert – 2 June 2023: cyber security; consumer data right; modern slavery; updated reporting standards
• Super Alert – 26 May 2023: APRA March super stats; super data project FAQs; AFCA jurisdiction expansion
• Super Alert – 19 May 2023: new APRA Prudential Standard & Practice Guides; ASIC v HCF re unfair contract terms
• Super Alert – 12 May 2023: Federal Budget; ASIC greenwashing report; SG Act; SDT FAQs
• Super Alert – 5 May 2023: IDR reporting obligations; ASIC report re DDO compliance; green investing; introduction of ‘payday super’
• Super Alert – 28 April 2023: APRA choice product heatmap; ASIC guidance on breach reporting.
• TPD claims – when must a trustee form an opinion?
• Super Alert – 21 April 2023: tranche 2 AML/CTF reforms; financial adviser standards; APRA life insurance stats
• Super Alert – 14 April 2023: first home saver super scheme; update re CPS 230; updated SDT FAQs
• Super Alert – 6 April 2023: Your Future, Your Super review; super performance test regulations; concessional tax rate for large balance holders
• Super Alert – 31 March 2023: crypto currency regulation Bill; AFCA – Rules & Operational Guidelines; IDPS class orders
• Super Alert – 24 March 2023: ASIC urges trustees to improve insurance outcomes; Full Court overturns decision re historic fraudulent misrepresentations
• Super Alert – 17 March 2023: Treasury Bill for consultation, regulatory framework for managed investment schemes
• Super Alert – 10 March 2023: Financial Accountability Regime; Treasury consultations re reducing complexity; SDT minor amendments
• Super Alert – 3 March 2023: concessional tax rate increase; OAIC data breaches report; quarterly super stats; unclaimed super
• Super Alert – 24 February 2023: Privacy Act Review; IDR processes; hawking conviction
• Super Alert – 17 February 2023: financial advisor registration, greenwashing, APRA policy & supervision priorities
• Super Alert – 10 February 2023: Quality of Advice Review; Senate disallowance meeting notice; transfer balance cap indexation
• Super Alert – 3 February 2023: APRA supervision & policy priorities agenda; FY 22 super statistics; Treasury consultations
• Super Alert – 22 December 2022: appeal re AFCA determination to proceed; Corporations Regulations amended; financial advisor registration requirement delayed
• Super Alert – 16 December 2022: latest MySuper Heatmap; annual super statistics; new Treasury consultations; new AUSTRAC guidance
• Super Alert – 9 December 2022: updated SFT protocol; SPS 310; Government’s superannuation agenda
• Super Alert – 2 December 2022: Financial sector Reform Bill passes; CPS 234 requirements; SDT project; AFCA death benefit determination
• SUPER ALERT – 25 NOVEMBER 2022: FINANCIAL REPORTING & AUDITING; CORPS ACT CHANGES; AMENDED SPS 510 AND SPS 530 REGISTERED; INCREASING SUPER FUND TRANSPARENCY
• SUPER ALERT – 18 NOVEMBER 2022: REPLACING SPS 114, PRUDENTIAL GUIDANCE SPG 530; COURT RULES ON APPLICATION OF CRIMES ACT TO MIS
• SUPER ALERT – 11 NOVEMBER 2022: ENHANCEMENTS TO SFT PROCESS; CHANGES TO REPORTING STANDARDS & AUSTRAC CONSULTATION RE CUSTOMER DUE DILIGENCE
• SUPER ALERT – 4 NOVEMBER 2022: NEW APRA CHAIR, INQUIRY RE APRA ENFORCEMENT CAPABILITY & FEDERAL COURT RULES ON AFCA AUTHORITY RE SUPER COMPLAINTS
• SUPER ALERT – 28 OCTOBER 2022: ASIC REPORT ON BREACH REPORTING REGIME; FIRST GREENWASHING ACTION; FEDERAL BUDGET ANNOUNCEMENT ON SUPER RULES
• SUPER ALERT – 21 OCTOBER 2022: SPEECH BY APRA’S OUTGOING CHAIR; QLD SUPREME COURT DECISION RE CRIMES ACT; QUARTERLY SUPERANNUATION STATISTICS
• SUPER ALERT – 14 OCTOBER 2022: APRA UPDATED FAQS RE DATA TRANSFORMATION; IMPLEMENTATION OF AFCA DETERMINATIONS; TREASURY ROUND UP 2022.
• Super Alert – 7 October 2022: APRA FAQs RE 2022 super heatmap, Downsizer contributions, ALRC Interim Report B tabled
• Super Alert – 30 September 2022: ASIC regulatory guide for customer remediation, AUSTRAC threat report for super industry
• Super Alert – 16 September 2022: Financial Accountability Regime Minister Rules 2022, planned changes to prudential framework
• Super Alert – 9 September 2022: FAR & CSLR Bills; Your Future, Your Super reforms; life insurance claims handling review
• Super Alert – 2 September 2022: MySuper performance test results; target market determinations; Superannuation Data Transformation project; financial advice reforms; modern slavery
• Super Alert 26 August 2022: Treasury consultation packages; APRA super statistics; APRA Superannuation CEO Roundtable notes
• Super Alert 19 August 2022: retirement income covenant; ATO 22/23 corporate plan
• Super Alert 12 August 2022: ASIC update re breach reporting; ASIC’s surveillance of internal dispute resolution; legislation deferring the performance test
• Super Alert 5 August 2022: APRA climate risk survey results, proposed amendments to SPS 515; Bill re downsizer contributions
• Super Alert 29 July 2022
• The ‘FAR101’ – an introduction to the Financial Accountability Regime for superannuation lawyers
• Super Alert 22 July 2022: Annual members’ meetings regulations consultation; performance test for faith-based products; amendments to prudential standards
• Super Alert 15 July 2022: ATO update re viewing contribution caps online; ASIC annual member statements advice
• Super Alert 8 July 2022
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• Super Alert – 3 July 2020
• SUPER ALERT – 26 JUNE 2020
• Super Alert – 19 June 2020

Tax & Structuring

• 5 Key Questions for Trustees: Ensuring Smart Year-End Trust Distributions by 30 June 2024
• New changes to Vacant Residential Land Tax: is your holiday home affected?
• Insights into the 2024 Victorian State Budget
• Foreign surcharges: surcharge purchaser duty back on the table
• Taxpayer strikes gold! AAT rejects Commissioners claim of anti-avoidance
• Acquiring land in Victoria in 2024? Tax changes that are essential to understand
• Blockchain Byte: when are staking rewards taxable?
• Blockchain Byte: wrapping tokens – a CGT event?
• AAT decides – UPE to corporate beneficiary is NOT a loan for Division 7A purposes
• NSW 2023-2024 Budget highlights: farewell corporate reconstruction exemption, hello increased landholder duty
• New payroll tax guidance impacting medical & health practices in Victoria
• Blockchain Byte: developments in GST guidance for crypto assets
• A locally controlled foreign trading company – must it call Australia home?
• Blockchain Byte: how to structure your crypto investments
• Bblood – Full Federal Court confirms section 100A applies
• Foreign surcharges: are State Revenue Offices pulling back on overreaching?
• Blockchain Byte: is the sacrifice of your crypto assets a CGT event?
• Year end trust distributions: six important steps Trustees should be taking now
• Victorian State Budget – goodbye stamp duty, hello land tax?
• Blockchain Byte: tax deductions for crypto donations
• Federal Budget 2023-2024: Key tax measures and insights
• Stop horsing around: Court of Appeal rules horse breeder does not engage in primary production for land tax purposes
• Blockchain Byte: new tax guidance for crypto assets – FY2023
• Federal Court averts expansion of ‘deemed employee’ test for super purposes
• Blockchain Byte: claiming losses from crypto activities
• Blockchain Byte: Five facts to know about the taxation of crypto assets in Australia
• Superannuation update & common traps for contractors
• Employer obligations: Superannuation Contributions – Myth busting
• The Carter case: disclaimer finally works!
• Buying residential or vacant property? Watch out for a stamp duty sting
• CGT MNAV test: How much is a business vendor’s restrictive covenants worth?
• SMSF – beware related party/private investments
• DPN to cover GST – directors & shadow directors exposed!
• Directors beware — extended liability for superannuation guarantee charge, PAYG withholding tax & GST
• PSI rules: taxpayer LinkedIn but unconnected to clients

Technology

• Technology update – analysing COVIDSafe
• Initial Coin Offerings & venture capital investment – be careful what you wish for
• Privacy compliance for start-ups
• Government Innovation Statement – what it means for venture capital funds

Wills & Estates

• The power of mediation in Estate and Trust disputes
• Distribution of assets after your death – what do you REALLY own?
• Repayment of Refundable Accommodation Deposit (RAD) after death
• Judicial advice is sage advice – Beddoe applications and trust litigation
• Indemnity costs order after unsuccessful application for revocation of grant of probate
• Victorian Supreme Court makes landmark ruling on electronic execution of Will
• Victoria now has two types of death certificates
• Can a grant of probate be revoked?
• Can you obtain Probate of a copy of a Will?
• Court interpretation of Will regarding use of deceased’s property
• What if the person appointed as an executor of a will is not an appropriate person to act in that role?
• What happens if a Will is unclear or uncertain?
• Can a Will be made for someone who lacks testamentary capacity?
• Where you store your Will is more important than you know!
• Obtaining Probate for an informal Will
• What happens if your executor doesn’t know you have died?
• Separation, re-partnering and intestacy
• Care of elderly relatives – avoiding elder abuse
• Electronic signing laws – in effect from 26 April 2021
• Guardianship and Administration Act now in force
• Password to $200m digital currency account lost on death
• Re Tang: impact of multiple jurisdictions on proving Wills
• Cryonics & estate planning: cool idea or should we just let it go?

Workplace Relations & Safety

• Workplace Watch – 7 October 2024: Secure Jobs Better Pay review; workplace surveillance; employer awarded damages for restraint breach
• Workplace Watch – 23 September 2024: Payday Super Reform, dismissal during probation period, Senate report on issues re menopause & perimenopause
• Workplace Watch: first WFH clause; TWU files 3 MSO applications; significant anti-discrimination decision; CFMEU update
• Workplace Watch: new reforms now in effect, incl right to disconnect; multi-employer bargaining decision; Transgrid update
• Workplace Watch: CFMEU update; set-off & underpayments; record penalties re Sushi Bay underpayments
• Workplace Watch: CFMEU controversy continues; right to disconnect & regulated workers reforms; Modern Awards review; recent FWC decisions
• Workplace Watch: right to disconnect; CFMEU controversy; industrial action case decisions; multi-enterprise bargaining
• KHQ Quarterly Update: Focus on Safety
• Workplace Watch: key FY25 numbers, new delegates’ rights term for EAs, underpayments, modern awards review, CFMEU demerger
• Quarterly update Q2 FY24: First Closing Loopholes Bill passed
• Update – Q1 FY24
• Workplace safety breaches – is your office your client’s registered address for service?
• WorkCover Reforms for the fundamentally broken scheme
• Court rules employees can refuse to work public holidays
• Safety update – Q1 FY23: amendments to model WHS Act; labour hire; psychological health; industrial manslaughter
• Workplace Relations & Safety Q1 Update
• How should food businesses manage safety now that vaccine mandates have lifted in Victoria?
• Workplace Relations Update
• Federal Court upholds decision re removal of labour hire worker
• Safety Update
• Q1 UPDATE: FY21/22 Industrial Relations & Employment – Special Compliance Edition!
• Proposed new laws to address workplace sexual harassment
• Contractor found to be employee – Deliveroo loses unfair dismissal claim
• Safety Update
• Developments re Casual Employees
• Redundancy – Court rules on ‘ordinary and customary turnover of labour’ exception
• Making reasonable Jobkeeper directions – employer lessons from TWU v Prosegur
• Q4 Update: Casuals, Annual Review, Award Changes, Jobkeeper, IR Reform and more
• New workplace manslaughter criminal offences – are you ready?
• When a casual is still not a casual
• The most significant ‘gig economy’ decision yet?
• JOBKEEPER LEGISLATION – WHAT IT MEANS FOR EMPLOYERS
• Workplace Relations – COVID-19 FAQs
• Recent adverse action cases & strategies to reduce risk
• COVID-19: Have you reviewed your Business Continuity Planning?
• Stress leave – minimising adverse action risk
• Adverse action and performance management
• Workplace Relations Q2 update: wage theft, non-standard work, travel time, labour hire and a Merry Christmas!
• Safety update: developments in workplace mental health
• Bushfires & safety prosecution risk – company found guilty of OHS breaches
• Managing Performance in the Age of Adverse Action Claims
• Employment law issues in the food & beverage industry
• Q1 Update: minimum wage, modern awards, labour hire & more
• IT company’s termination based on “vague” task list ruled unlawful
• Have you recently reviewed your traffic management arrangements?
• Annualised wage arrangements – new obligations for employers
• The ‘gig’ is up for now… FWO withdraws against Foodora and Uber wins again
• 4 yearly review of Modern Awards – our Q2 update
• When a casual is not a casual – impact of Skene & next steps
• Anti-fatigue monitoring and tracking devices get the tick
• De novo appeals against sentence to be removed
• Out of the shadows – FWC representation
• Tough gig for workers
• Fair Work Act & key IR changes for FY18/19
• Property owner bears clean up cost
• Uber still not an employer (according to FWC), but for how long?
• Service provider fined for involvement in underpayments
• Fair Work Act penalties on the rise again!
• Is your start-up business running in safe shoes?
• Service providers liable in Award breach proceedings
• Will Victorian OHS laws be left to go solo?
• Employee’s after hours meals made very expensive!
• Record safety prosecution fine of $1m – traffic management
• Offensive “banter” – on the lower end of the scale of seriousness
• Gardening leave period included in restraining senior exec for 6 months!
• Inherent requirements – why you should resist the urge to just jump to conclusions!
• Fair Work Commission – 4 Yearly Modern Award Review
• Breakfast Seminar – OHS accidents in the workplace
• Enterprise Bargaining Agreements – taking control of your destiny
• Redundancy & redeployment obligations – agency labour workers
• Unfair dismissal extension of time – are medical circumstances sufficiently ‘exceptional’?
• Breakfast Seminar – Managing ill & injured employees
• “Custom & practice” no barrier to change
• Workplace mental health – another reason to support not stigmatise
• Social media: be careful what you post
• Notice of termination and R&R leave – can they run concurrently for FIFO workers?
• 2016: trends & sleepers
• Hospitalisation due to mental health can be an exceptional circumstances for the purposes of unfair dismissal
• Workplace relations: dismissal found to be unfair because the misconduct was caused by mental health issues
• Are your employees’ mental health issues reasonably obvious to you…?