Introduction A security interest granted under the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) can be perfected by registration on the Personal Property Securities Register ("PPSR") at any time. However a late registration can ve...

Introduction In Empire Capital Partners Pty Ltd v CMB Investments 1993 Pty Ltd [2021] FCA 605 ("the Winding-up Proceeding"), the Federal Court of Australia examined the relevant principles applicable to the adjournment of a windi...

Introduction In Re Empire Plant Hire Pty Ltd (in liq) [2021] VSC 549 ("Empire Plant"), the Supreme Court of Victoria recently considered the interesting question of when a receiver may be appointed over disclaimed property to ass...

In Commonwealth of Taxation v Bosanac (No 7) [2021] FCAFC 158, the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia has delivered a judgment which is sure to impact on the acquisition of property in a matrimonial relationship and pote...

On 27 September 2021 the Full Bench upheld the dismissal of an employee who refused to get vaccinated. In Jennifer Kimber v Sapphire Coast Community Aged Care [2021] FWCFB the majority held that the employee's refusal to get vacci...

Regulatory breach reporting is a concept that has been in and out of favour since the FSR reforms of twenty years ago.  After the introduction in March 2002 of the breach reporting obligation of Australian Financial Services Lice...