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Are pecuniary penalties actually paid?
11/11/2024
ASIC
penalties
ACCC
One enforcement tool of regulators is to obtain a court ordered civil penalty against the respondent company or individual. That ...
ASIC’s civil penalty regime – an academic review
06/09/2024
ASIC
penalties
deterrence
In the midst of a focus on the enforcement activity of ASIC following a critical Senate Committee report,[1] we have ...
Insolvency practitioners and missing moneys – on-line regulation required
17/06/2024
penalties
artificial intelligence
IP regulation
The sentencing hearing in relation to former liquidator Mr Peter Amos was mentioned on 17 June 2024 and was then ...
ACCC’s new penalty guidelines – some queries
26/09/2023
penalties
deterrence
ACCC
The ACCC has issued new penalty guidelines – Guidelines on ACCC approach to penalties in competition and consumer law matters ...
Penalising cartel conduct – BlueScope Steel: $57m penalty, net profit $2.8b
29/08/2023
penalties
ACCC
The Federal Court has fined BlueScope Steel $57 million for cartel conduct under the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) ...
“Record penalties” imposed … against insolvent companies
01/08/2023
penalties
deterrence
ACCC
While much is made of the “record penalties of $438m” penalties imposed on the Phoenix Institute and related companies for ...
Breach of an undertaking not to enter insolvency, an undertaking that was “not worth the paper it was written on”
17/02/2023
contempt
penalties
In a penalty judgment against GetSwift, Justice Michael Lee had some comment to make about GetSwift’s entry into voluntary liquidation ...
Unconscionable and immoral corporate conduct – nothing personal
06/12/2021
penalties
In imposing a $153 million penalty on the Australian Institute of Professional Education, already in liquidation, for its “deliberate and ...
Regulatory penalties
03/07/2021
penalties
deterrence
Sanctions imposed by courts for breaches of competition or regulatory laws have to tread a line between being so severe ...
Penalties and bankruptcy
21/04/2021
penalties
ALRC 95
A person in breach of consumer protection laws concerning the hire of 4 wheel drive vehicles has been ordered to ...
Insolvency Law Bulletin – penalties, phoenix & preferences, franchises & offence reports
30/11/2019
ALRC
Cross-border insolvency
offence reporting
penalties
The latest issue of the Insolvency Law Bulletin (2019) 20(4&5) covers some very topical issues. The Halifax Investment Services matter ...
ASIC’s deterrence message – “no point just communicating this into the Fin Review”.
16/09/2019
penalties
regulation
deterrence
General
ASIC gave some useful insights before the recent Senate oversight hearing[1] on 13 September as to the reality of the ...
Flying low – an airline’s ‘extraordinary’ response to a $19m penalty
20/08/2019
penalties
stay of proceedings
Articles
A major international airline turned up to court to seek a stay of a A$19m penalty with evidence so inadequate ...
Lifting the fear and suppressing the greed – a Senate committee report on penalties for white collar crime
27/03/2017
ASIC
Books, articles, commentary
Crime
penalties
A long awaited Senate committee report on penalties for white collar crime was issued on 23 March 2017 under the ...
Senate inquiry
26/12/2016
ASIC
Books, articles, commentary
Ethics
Insolvency Law Reform
On 29 November 2016, the Senate referred the following matters to the Economics References Committee for inquiry and report by ...
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