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Administrative Appeals Tribunal overturns APRA Ban of Robert Stitt QC

  • Piper Alderman
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • September 1 2009

Mr Stitt was a non executive director of HIH Insurance Limited and a member of the Audit and Human Resources sub committees to the HIH Board

NSW payroll tax grouping provisions

  • Piper Alderman
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • October 6 2009

The NSW Payroll Tax Act 2007 has very wide grouping provisions

Modern awards and transitional provisions

  • Piper Alderman
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • October 6 2009

The Australian Industrial Relations Commission has issued an important decision about arrangements for the transition to modern awards

Court orders $466,000 damages for discrimination in the workplace

  • Piper Alderman
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • October 6 2009

Discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace can expose employers to very large liabilities

Good faith bargaining consideration so far

  • Piper Alderman
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • October 6 2009

The Federal Labor Government’s Fair Work Act 2009 commenced operation on 1 July 2009

Summons for public examinations have extraterritorial effect

  • Piper Alderman
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • September 15 2009

The significant increase in the number of companies passing into liquidation in the current economic climate has focused Courts on whether they can summons a non-resident

APRA’s ban of prominent lawyer overturned

  • Piper Alderman
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • September 15 2009

The decision had disqualified Robert Stitt QC from acting as a director or senior manager of an Australian general insurance company

Guylian loses trade mark fight re Seahorse Chocolates

  • Piper Alderman
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • September 15 2009

Chocolatier Guylian has been unsuccessful in its attempt to register a trade mark over the shape of its Seahorse Chocolates

Government tightens non-commercial loan rules - two new exemptions announced to benefit rural communities and small business operators

  • Piper Alderman
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • September 22 2009

Earlier in the year, the Federal Government announced as part of its Budget that the non-commercial loan rules in Division 7A of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 would be extended to cover circumstances where a shareholder (or their associate) is permitted to use a company asset, such as real estate or a car for free or at a rate that is less than market value

Mining companies land rich provisions

  • Piper Alderman
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • October 6 2009

The High Court has recently considered the application of the NT land rich provisions in relation to the acquisition of shares in a mining company