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The meaning of “information” for the purposes of the Australian insider trading offence

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • November 16 2012

Elizabeth Macknay and Matthew J. Keogh review the High Court of Australia’s recent decision, Mansfield v the Queen 2010 HCA 49 regarding the meaning of “information” for the purposes of the Australian insider trading offence

High Court unanimously decides information does not need to be true to be inside information

  • King & Wood Mallesons
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • November 15 2012

Yesterday the High Court handed down its decision in a case brought by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions against WA businessmen John Kizon and Nigel Mansfield concerning insider trading

SFO investigations, bribery and corruption

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Australia, European Union, United Kingdom, USA
  • -
  • September 5 2012

The SFO has announced that Paul Jennings, former CEO of Innospec Ltd, has pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to corrupt Iraqi public officials and other agents of the Iraqi Government

AWB case highlights concerns for directors in conducting business in high risk markets

  • King & Wood Mallesons
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • August 10 2012

Much recent attention has been devoted to the need for Australian companies to pay greater attention to managing the risks around bribery and corruption as regulatory enforcement attention increases in this area

Fraudulent non-disclosure - reckless indifference

  • King & Wood Mallesons
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • August 7 2012

The defendant insurer, Atradius, succeeded in avoiding the policy on the basis of fraudulent non-disclosure by the insured

Supreme Court of New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal finds that a director dishonestly used his position to gain a personal advantage in Krecichwost v R

  • Gilbert + Tobin
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • June 26 2012

This case demonstrates that dishonesty is determined according to the standards of ordinary people and that there is no definitive list of factors which will be relevant to determining whether a director has acted dishonestly

Former AWB CFO admits contraventions

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • June 22 2012

ASIC has secured another breakthrough in its civil proceedings against former directors and officers of AWB, with former CFO Paul Ingleby becoming the second former AWB director or officer to acknowledge in court that he had contravened the Corporations Act 2001

Fraud does pay

  • Hall & Wilcox
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • March 20 2012

In a National Mutual insurance proposal form for an income protection policy, Dr Moore claimed to be a self-employed psychiatrist earning $90,000 per year

Watchdogs bite as corporate scandals rise

  • Clayton Utz
  • -
  • Australia
  • -
  • November 15 2011

Corporate ethics and practices are increasingly in the sights of regulators as a growing number of scandals prompt action

Securency arrests are the first real test for Australian anti-bribery and corruption laws

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
  • -
  • July 5 2011

Australia's anti-bribery and corruption laws are about to get their first real test in court with the arrest and charging of six people for alleged bribery of foreign officials, and the charging of Securency International Pty Ltd and Note Printing Australia Limited with the same offence

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