In 2014, a group of researchers at Melbourne Law School commenced a major empirical research project, focussing on Australia's personal insolvency laws and their practical impact on people in financial distress. As part of the project, in early 2015, the research team conducted a national online...

The Corporations Act 2001 is growing in length and complexity. The authors explore the consequences of this increasing complexity including the costs created for those who are regulated by the Act and for the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). In particular, the authors...

Financial hardship has been recognised as a growing problem that affects a broad cross-section of Australian consumers. The federal and state governments have sought to respond to this problem by establishing legal frameworks that provide consumer credit, essential services and...

The authors examine the behaviour and attitudes towards superannuation of 25-34 year old Australians. The results of the survey suggest they are generally uninterested in their superannuation accounts. They seldom read the information provided by their funds, rarely change their fund, and a...

The last two decades have seen an increasing number of jurisdictions adopting the ‘twin peaks' model of financial regulation. Since it was pioneered in Australia, the model has been adopted by the Netherlands, Belgium, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. South Africa is currently in the...

In this paper the author examines the law in Australia regulating loans made by companies to their directors. The author: (a) documents several instances where companies have collapsed with large loans outstanding to their directors; (b) provides the history of the Australian provision...

This research report, published jointly by the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation at the University of Melbourne and Corporate Governance International, contains the results of a study of proxy voting at a sample of major listed Australian companies during 1999.When institutional...

This report was prepared at the request of the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees to assist its members deal with corporate governance issues relevant to the shareholding investment of trustees of Australian superannuation funds. The report: (a) outlines the meaning and importance...

This paper reports the results of a study of disclosure of loans made by listed Australian companies to their directors. Thirty six percent of the surveyed companies disclosed outstanding loans to directors. The author explores the implications of the results of the study, noting that the...

This article compares reforms to directors' liability for insolvent trading in Singapore and in Australia. The authors analyse the law in these two countries because they are important Asia-Pacific trading partners and their laws were originally largely the same – Singapore's law on insolvent...