Consumers use financial intermediaries such as brokers and other credit advisers to navigate complex financial markets and to provide guidance on credit products. In 2017 the Australian Securities & Investments Commission reported that ‘[b]rokers … are responsible for arranging … half of...

Retail financial consumers increasingly interact with financial services providers via a financial robot that is driven by an algorithm or other mathematical model (‘robo financial advice'). In this sector, the focus of industry and legal participants is on statutory regulation under the...

The opt out and class closure procedures used in Australian Federal Class actions may involve a course of dealing likely to constitute the representative party's lawyer a fiduciary for group members. We observe that the conflicts between obligations owed to multiple parties and between...

On 18 and 19 December 2015 UNSW Law will host a conference entitled Contracts in Commercial Law. Full details regarding the conference are available at the conference website. The conference, which is sponsored by Allens and Linklaters, will consider timeless and emerging problems in the law of...

The law of unjust enrichment admits a novel policy motivated unjust factor called the policy against accumulation. This applies where a claimant (R) receives a benefit, or has the right to recover a debt or damages from another party (X), and receives or has the right to receive value in respect...