Journal Updates

17 Sep 2021

Content updates

The following Journal update articles were posted originally in Journals Talk.

The latest Part of the Australian Business Law Review includes the following articles:

An Impending "Avalanche": Debt Collection and Consumer Harm After COVID-19 – Lucinda O’Brien, Vivien Chen, Ian Ramsay and Paul Ali
A New Worker Category under the Personal Service Income Regime in Australia – Christina Allen

Also in this Part are the following sections:

Editorial – Michael Terceiro
Commercial Litigation: "Federal Court Opens Door to Pre-trial Oral Discovery in Australia" – Michael Legg
New Zealand Newsletter: "Reckless Trading Makes Its DEBUT in the New Zealand Supreme Court" – Matthew Berkahn and Lindsay Trotman
Competition Law and Market Regulation: "Merger Movements: International Co-ordination of Merger Clearance Policy" – Rob Nicholls

The latest Part of the Building and Construction Law Journal includes the following articles:

Raising Consumer Confidence in Residential Apartment Buildings – The New South Wales Pillar 1 Reforms – Laina Chan
Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020 (NSW) – Hon Robert McDougall QC

Also in this Part are the following sections:

Editorial: "Protecting the Public from Unsafe or Otherwise Defective Residential Buildings – Recent Reforms"
Reports on the following cases: Tianqi Lithium Kwinana Pty Ltd v MSP Engineering Pty Ltd (No 2); Mistrina Pty Ltd v Australian Consulting Engineers Pty Ltd; Civil Contractors (Aust) Pty Ltd v Galaxy Developments Pty Ltd; and MTR Corporation (Sydney) NRT Pty Ltd v Thales Australia Ltd

The latest Part of the Company and Securities Law Journal includes an Editorial as well as the following articles:

The Future of Clearing and Settlement in Australia: Part I – The Current System – Christian Chamorro-Courtland
A Civil Law Solution to the Social Licence to Operate and Directors' Duties Conundrum in Australia – Julia Dreosti, Bimaya De Silva and Katie Walsh
Is There Underenforcement of Corporate Criminal Law? An Analysis of Prosecutions under the ASIC Act and Corporations Act: 2009–2018 – George Gilligan and Ian Ramsay

The latest Part of the Insolvency Law Journal includes the following article:

Also in this Part are the following sections:

Editorial – Dr David Morrison
Recent Developments: "Back to Basics – s 588FA, Corporations Act: Is a Diminution of a Company’s Assets a Pre-condition to the Existence of a Preference? The Mischief of the 'Doctrine of Ultimate Effect' Exposed" – Dr Garry J Hamilton; "CATSI Act Insolvency Reform" – Mary Wyburn; and "Likelihood of Insolvency and the Duties of Directors in the European Directive on Restructuring and Insolvency" – Sérgio Coimbra Henriques
New Zealand Report: "The New Zealand Court of Appeal’s Take on Insolvent Trading: Yan v Mainzeal Property and Construction Ltd (in liq)"

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