Benjamin Hine
DLA Piper
Articles
ASIC reveals ‘hot spots’ for the insurance industry in 2017
Australia - February 20 2017 Last week Greg Medcraft, the chairperson of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), delivered a speech to the Insurance Council…
Climate change risk heats up for directors
Australia - November 4 2016 Today marks the formal adoption of the Paris Agreement on climate change in many countries across the globe. When ratified in Australia, the…
Ground breaking ruling set to make commencing class actions easier
Australia - October 27 2016 The Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia has made a ground-breaking order in a proceeding that all class members pay for litigation funding…
Spring brings Federal and Queensland class actions developments
Australia - September 9 2016 On 5 August 2016, the Queensland government announced its intention to introduce a class action regime. This is the first time class actions will be…
Developments in defamation law - the year of the tweet
Australia - May 4 2016 During the last year, defamation law was dominated by emergent technologies, and in particular the continued explosion of new social media platforms…
