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Westpac off the hook in BBSW scandal

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... implicit values enshrined in the text, context and purpose of the ASIC Act specifically and the Corporations Act generally," Justice Jonathan Beach said in his judgement. In the four occasions where the bank was ruled to have engaged in unconscionable ...

Vale Terry Mackenroth

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
... rugby league matched his passion for the game," Morris said. Morris said Mackenroth had an unwavering commitment to social justice and was a fierce advocate for the interests of members. His astute knowledge of both government and corporate environments ...

ASIC closes doors on Storm charges with two fines

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2018
... $70,000 fines are adequate or not, or over the top, or unfair in circumstances where nobody else has been prosecuted - well, Justice Edelman conceded that there was no criminality. No fraud. All the money, essentially, had been accounted for. In fact ...

Former Provident Capital MD still banned but allowed procedural fairness

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... the maximum banning period ASIC can impose under section 206F of the Corporations Act. On 7 March 2018, Federal Court Justice Nye Perram found an error was made in O'Sullivan's AAT hearing on 2 May 2017. "ASIC accepted the AAT had made an error of law ...

Credit Suisse under investigation

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... in regards to potential violations of the US' Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other civil statutes. The Department of Justice and the US Securities and Exchange Commission are among those investigating whether Credit Suisse hired referrals from government ...

AMP Capital adds key social infrastructure asset

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 15 JAN 2018
... high-yield, brownfield, social infrastructure PPP assets in Australia and New Zealand in sectors such as education, health, justice, defence, community housing, recreational facilities and transport. It now owns 13 assets worth more than $650 million ...

Federal Government names Royal Commission lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... the Government will recommend Kenneth Madison Hayne be appointed Royal Commissioner by the Governor General. Hayne was a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1997 to 2015, having previously served on the Victorian Court of Appeal and as a Justice ...

Students to manage university fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
... Griffith University associate professor Robert Bianchi said the university has a strong commitment to the environment, social justice and good governance (ESG) and "the fund will make investments in companies that exhibit those three characteristics." ...

Melbourne advice firm cops historic $1 million fine

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
... August 2015. The Court found the failures by NSG to ensure compliance by its representatives were systemic in nature, with Justice Moshinsky regarding the contraventions as "very serious ones." ASIC commenced proceedings against NSG in June 2016, with ...

CBA climate risk court case abandoned

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
... failing to disclose climate change risks in its annual reports have withdrawn the claim. Legal correspondence between social justice group Environmental Justice Australia and CBA over an eight month period climaxed with EJA filing proceedings in the ...