Bitcoin: Not just relevant to Russian oligarchs The world has acted swiftly to cut off Russia's access to traditional banking methods. However, oligarchs and their cryptocurrency seem to be a very different story. Because it is ...

In response to the invasion of Ukraine, the Federal Government has announced the extension of existing autonomous sanctions against Russia and Ukraine so as to apply these sanctions regimes to the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Uk...

Introduction Cross-border insolvency is becoming increasingly common in the globalised world.   This article will review the mechanisms available to deal with cross-border insolvencies, as applied in the recent decision of Just...

Over the past few years, Customs has had some major, and at times, surprising losses in Australian Courts and Tribunals (including one case where wheelie bins were classified as vehicles!).  The most high profile loss concerned t...

On 24 September 2020, the Australian Federal Government announced what it called the most significant reforms to Australia's insolvency framework in over 30 years. "The reforms, which draw on key features from Chapter 11 of the...

Following on from the recently announced dumping duty investigation into Australian wine, the Chinese Government hit the industry with a countervailing duty investigation on 31 August.  Below we briefly set out the claims that wi...