The Australian National Basketball League (NBL) first tipped off in 1979 and by the early 1990s, basketball was Australia's fourth most popular spectator sport behind Australian football, rugby league and cricket. Yet the NBL was struggling soon thereafter and today it rarely rises above the...

The growth of Fintech, which refers to the use of technology in providing financial services, is continuing to disrupt global financial services markets. The rapidly evolving technological landscape provides challenges for financial regulators, which are already facing the need to address a...

In recent years there has been a renewed emphasis on improving the regulatory frameworks of financial systems in part as a response to the global financial crisis. This has included a focus on how institutional design can promote financial stability. Support for the continued importance of...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has emphasised the importance of its enforcement role in relation to auditors and liquidators. However, there is little detailed analysis of what enforcement action ASIC has undertaken against auditors and liquidators. Using several...

This book chapter is a revised version of a paper presented at a conference to mark the centenary of the decision of the House of Lords in Salomon v Salomon & Co Ltd. Few law judgments would be worthy of a major conference 100 years after they are handed down. Yet the decision of the House of...

Approaches to the regulation of partial takeovers differ significantly among countries. The author reviews the regulatory approaches adopted in a number of countries noting that statutory amendments in Australia have virtually eliminated partial takeovers in that country. The justifications for...