Child protection systems in Australia are struggling to cope with the growing number of children requiring out-of-home care because of abuse or neglect occurring within families. Professionals and governments are grappling with the alternative care…
Export controls are gradually emerging as a source of contention within the World Trade Organisation (‘WTO’) law. Resource-exporting developing countries are increasingly finding it difficult to reserve the use of commodities and mineral resources…
The small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector is the largest and most productive in Australia. Like all established market-based economies, ours is characterised by the use of contracts as a mechanism for exchange. Contracts often require…
Class actions are legal proceedings brought on behalf of numerous persons, known asgroup members. When a class action settles for a monetary payment to compensatethe group members, the payment needs to be divided among the group members. Thedivision…
