Year

2021-2025

16.12.2021

ALRC InBrief | Merry Christmas

Season’s Greetings! The Australian Law Reform Commission wishes you a wonderful festive season. 2021 has been a productive year for the ALRC: submitting the Judicial Impartiality Inquiry Report to the Attorney-General on 6 December; and releasing the first Interim Report for the Financial Services Inquiry on 30 November. As an end-of-year celebration of the research, analysis and …

15.12.2021

Breaking down the ALRC 12 Days of Christmas

As an end-of-year celebration of the research, analysis and reports completed in 2021, the ALRC team, led by the Hon Justice SC Derrington, have created a festive inquiry-related version of the 12 Days of Christmas. The Inquiry that lasts for three years is the ongoing Review of the Legislative Framework for Corporations and Financial Services …

10.12.2021

ALRC InBrief | December 2021

Financial Services Legislation Interim Report A now online First interim report reveals significant complexity in financial services legislation. The ALRC’s first Interim Report as part of a three-year review of complexity in Commonwealth legislation regulating corporations and financial services was tabled in Parliament by the Attorney-General of Australia, Senator the Hon Michaelia Cash on 30 November 2021. This Interim Report …

30.11.2021

Financial Services Legislation Interim Report A Released

Interim Report A now online First interim report reveals significant complexity in financial services legislation The ALRC’s first Interim Report as part of a three-year review of complexity in Commonwealth legislation regulating corporations and financial services was today tabled in Parliament. This Interim Report focuses in particular on the use and design of definitions in legislation. The Commission …

30.11.2021

Religious Exemptions Inquiry Update November 2021

On 25 November 2021, the Religious Discrimination Bill 2021 (Cth) (Bill), and associated legislation, was introduced to the Parliament of Australia. In accordance with Terms of Reference issued by the Attorney-General on 10 April 2019 and amended on 29 August 2019 and 2 March 2020, the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) will conduct an Inquiry into the framework …

30.11.2021

Legislative data

The ALRC has undertaken qualitative and quantitative analysis of a range of legislative sources, including Commonwealth statutes, and legislative and administrative instruments, and equivalent sources in other jurisdictions. Interim Report B Data Corporations Act 2001 offences and penalties — Point in time: This spreadsheet includes data on offences and civil penalties in the Corporations Act 2001 …

30.11.2021

Undue complexity in Australia’s corporations and financial services legislation

This article discusses two of the key themes arising so far from the ALRC’s review into corporations and financial services law – namely, undue complexity, and poor navigability. It also provides a brief overview of some of the reforms suggested in Interim Report A, released on 30 November 2021.

30.11.2021

First interim report reveals significant complexity in financial services legislation

The ALRC’s first Interim Report as part of a three-year review of complexity in Commonwealth legislation regulating corporations and financial services was today tabled in Parliament. The Commission seeks feedback on 16 proposals, and 8 questions for reform. Submissions are due by Friday 25 February 2022. The report contains 13 Recommendations for reform, relating to …

30.11.2021

Financial Services Legislation: Interim Report A (ALRC Report 137)

The Australian Law Reform Commission report, Financial Services Legislation: Interim Report A (Report 137, 2021), was tabled in Parliament on 30 November 2021. The Report contains recommendations, proposals, and questions in relation to the reform of corporations and financial services legislation.

30.11.2021

Making a submission

The Financial Services Legislation Final Report was published on 18 January 2024. Submissions closed in July 2023.