LAW REFORM

 

CAMAC AND CASAC REPORTS AND DISCUSSION PAPERS

 

CAMAC website

Administration of charitable trusts (May 2013)

Managed investment schemes (July 2012)

Derivatives (Dec 2011)

Executive remuneration (April 2011)

Executive remuneration information paper (July 2010)

Guidance for directors (April 2010)

Members’ schemes of arrangement (Dec 2009)

Aspects of market integrity (June 2009)

Diversity on boards of directors (Mar 2009)

Shareholder claims against insolvent companies: Implications of the Sons of Gwalia decision (Dec 2008)

Issues in external administration (Nov 2008)

Long-tail Liabilities: the Treatment of Unascertained Future Personal Injury Claims – CAMAC Report (May 2008)

Issues in External Administration – CAMAC Discussion Paper (Feb 2008)

Shareholder Claims Against Insolvent Companies – CAMAC Discussion Paper (Sep 2007)

The social responsibility of corporations (December 2006)

Personal liability for corporate fault (September 2006)

Corporate duties below board level (April 2006) Report (April 2006)

Directors and Officers Insurance Report (June 2004)

Report on rehabilitating large and complex enterprises in financial difficulties (October 2004)

CAMAC Insider Trading Report (November 2003)

Insider Trading Discussion Paper (June 2001)

Charges over Uncertificated Securities (April 2001)

Qualifications and Experience for Secretaries of Public Companies (August 2000)

Shareholder Participation in the Modern Listed Public Company (Company Meetings) (June 2000)

Corporate Groups (May 2000)

Jurisdictional Legal Risk for Collateral Securities (May 2000)

Liability of Members of Managed Investment Schemes (March 2000)

Compulsory Acquisitions (March 2000)

Compulsory Acquisitions and Buy-outs (March 1999)

Recommendations for Reform of ss 621(4) and 623(2) and (3) of the Corporate Law Economic Reform Program Bill 1998 (December 1998)

Corporate Voluntary Administration (June 1998)

Netting in Financial Markets Transactions (June 1997)

Regulation of On-exchange and OTC Derivatives Markets (June 1997)

Report on Continuous Disclosure (November 1996)

Compulsory Acquisitions (January 1996)

Law of Derivatives: An International Comparison (January 1995)

Anomalies in the Takeovers Provisions of the Corporations Law (March 1994)

Collective Investments: Other People’s Money (September 1993)

Statutory Derivative Actions (July 1993)

Collective Investments: Superannuation (March 1992)

Company Directors and Officers: Indemnification, Relief and Insurance (February 1992)

An Enhanced Statutory Disclosure System (September 1991)

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PARLIMENTARY JOINT COMMITTEE ON CORPORATIONS AND FINANCIAL SERVICES

 

Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services website

selected recent reports

Personal Liability for Corporate Fault Bill 2012

Corporations Legislation Amendment (Derivative Transactions) Bill 2012

Corporations Amendment (Future of Financial Advice) Bill 2011 and Corporations Amendment (Further Future of Financial Advice Measures) Bill 2011

Shareholder engagement & participation (June 2008)

Corporate responsibility: Managing risk and creating value (June 2006)

Corporate Insolvency Laws: A Stocktake (June 2004)


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COMPANIES & SECURITIES LAW REVIEW COMMITTEE

 website

Discussion Papers

No 1 – Forms of legal organisation for small business enterprises (Oct 1984)

No 2 – Partial takeover bids (March 1985)

No 3 – Civil liability of company auditors (Nov 1985)

No 4 – Share premiums (March 1986)

No 5 – A company’s purchase of its own shares (June 1986)

No 6 – Prescribed interests (May 1987)

No 7 – Nominee directors and alternate directors (December 1987)

No 8 – Director’s statutory duty to disclose interest and loans to directors August 1988)

No 9 – Company directors and officers: indemnification, relief and insurance (April 1989)

No 10 – Shares of no par value and partly-paid shares (March 1990)

No 11 – Enforcement of the duties of directors and officers of a company by means of a statutory derivative action (July 1990)

 

Reports

No 1 – The takeover threshold (November 1984)

No 2 – Partial takeover bids (August 1985)

No 3 – Forms of legal organisation for small business enterprises (September 1985)

No 4 – Civil liability of company auditors (September 1986)

No 5 – Issue of shares for non-cash consideration and treatment of share premiums (September 1986)

No 6 – A company’s purchase of its own shares (September 1987)

No 7 – Prescribed interests (August 1988)

No 8 – Nominee directors and alternate directors (March 1989)

No 9 – Director’s statutory duty to disclose interest and loans to directors (November 1989)

No 10 – Company directors and officers: indemnification, relief and insurance (May 1990)

No 11 – Share of no par value and partly-paid shares (November 1990)

No 12 – Enforcement of the duties of directors and officers of a company by means of a statutory derivative action


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Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation

Research Reports and Research Papers


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