Does a prison sentence also mean losing the opportunity to become a parent after release? That question sits at the heart of Smith v Chief Executive, Queensland Corrective Services, a powerful High Court decision about egg freezing, fertility preservation and
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IP Administration
The Explanatory Statement for the Regulatory Reform Omnibus Bill 2026 (Cth) – now passed – states Schedule 1: Amendments to simplify business regulation The amendments in Schedule 1 make regulatory improvements for businesses by
simplifying business reporting obligations, adding targeted safeguards for…
GRATK
The Australian Parliament’s Joint Committee on Treaties in its latest report addresses the WIPO Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge (aka GRATK) as follows
The WIPO Treaty on Intellectual Property, Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge
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Doctor suspended for assaulting a patient in the Emergency Room
By M. Eburn
A doctor in Victoria has been reprimanded and suspended for six months after he struck a patient in the face, twice, and abused him. The longer story is that the patient ‘was verbally and physically aggressive’ (Medical Board of Australia…
The road to Australia's first benchmark public data centre securitisation
By Dentons
Australia: This article focuses on the market outlook for the emergence of securitisation as a funding channel in Australia.
Tax, FIRB and true sale: legal constraints shaping Australian data centre securitisation
By Dentons
Australia: This article addresses a range of Australian-specific legal considerations that operate largely behind the scenes but can significantly influence transaction design for ABS and CMBS structures: state-based transfer duty and landholder duty regimes, foreign investment approvals under the Foreign…
Property, contract and enforcement: transferability constraints shaping Australian data centre securitisation
By Dentons
Australia: Previous articles in this series looked at the principal data centre securitisation structures currently used offshore (CMBS and ABS) and considered how they might be adapted for the Australian market. The next few articles in this series examine Australian-specific…
ESG, grid access and the world's most volatile electricity market: operational constraints shaping Australian data centre securitisation
By Dentons
Australia: In the previous article we examined Australian-specific legal risks that operate largely behind the scenes but can significantly influence transaction design. This article considers a different category of risk: operational factors that are unique to Australia that directly affect…
Pushing Back against U.S. Government Pushback on Non-Discriminatory Tech Regulations: The Case of Australia's Online Safety Regulation
By Simon Lester
Over the years, I’ve talked a lot about the distinction between, on the one hand, domestic regulation that is ostensibly about some public policy objective but actually constitutes disguised protectionism, and, on the other hand, domestic regulation that pursues legitimate…
IR
The recommendations in the Qld Industrial Relations
and Workers’
Compensation
scheme review areQueensland Employment Standards1 Consideration of National Employment Standards Inquiry outcomes
That outcomes of the federal inquiry into the operation and adequacy of the National
Employment Standards…