Since the EU passed the PSD II, countries across the world have or are contemplating a new framework to govern data sharing among different players in financial markets—a trend called ‘Open Banking’ that requires or encourages banks to share consumer-permissioned banking data with third...

This paper first briefly introduces the reader to nanotechnology and the potential health risks it raises. It then reviews how nanotechnology is or may be used by the food industry so that challenges that must be addressed by food regulations can be better understood. The application of current...

In 2006, the Australian Association of National Advertisers implemented the self-regulatory Food and Beverages Advertising and Marketing Communications Code in response to public concern about the influence of 'junk food' advertising on children's obesity levels and pressure for more restrictive...

The Australian law on parallel importing of trade marked goods appears to be inconsistent with the objectives of that law. A combination of the new legislation in 1995 and case law since that legislation has led to the erosion of a regulatory scheme which was previously more tolerant of parallel...

Pharmaceutical regulatory agencies struggle worldwide to maintain public trust these days. Drug safety issues proliferate, the costs of pharmaceuticals take increasingly larger shares of most countries' health service spending, and conflicts of interest afflicting the drug approval and marketing...

The expansive application of tort law to business enterprise has established courts as regulators of the safety and supply of virtually all mass-produced goods and services, including those such as prescription drugs and medical care, upon which the lives and livelihood of most people depend....

This article examines to what extent there is legacy of the Commission’s labour standards in the new legislated standards in the National Employment Standards and dismissal protection in the Fair Work Act 2009 (Cth). The Commission’s ‘community standards’, mainly from ‘test cases’...

Modern, commercial fantasy sports came to Australia in 2001. It has since grown into a significant and accepted part of the Australian sporting and gambling landscape. Fantasy sports’ mainstreaming has been relatively uncontroversial. It has found its place within Australia’s regulatory...

Australian law has no concept of absolute ownership of land. Instead, it recognizes a limited number of interests, public and private, in land. Many of these interests, or titles, are statutory in origin. During the colonial era, state legislatures won control of public land from the British...