During difficult economic conditions it is important that all directors revisit their duties as directors and are aware of how the board should deal with the situation where a company is in financial difficulty and may be insolven...

When you apply for a tariff concession order (TCO) you have to nominate the appropriate tariff classification. Customs may not dispute the nominated classification at the time of application, but this doesn’t mean that many year...

We have all attended meetings where there are 10 agenda items, but its five minutes to go and you realize you are only up to item four. Not so with the first meeting I attended in 2015 regarding the implementation of the WTO Trade...

In the matter of Avni v Visy Industrial Plastics Pty Ltd [2016] NSWWCCPD 46 (16 September 2016), the appellant worker was employed by the respondent as a process worker when on the deemed date of 30 March 2005, she sustained an ...

Watch Partner Bill Hazlett discuss what you need to know about estate and succession planning in Victoria....

“I wish he would tear up the US Australia FTA” said a Mildura citrus farmer I was talking to after the news of Trump’s victory was announced. Usually, the promotion of international trade is a bipartisan issue and elections ...