Under the Corporations Act 2001, a person that has been validly appointed as a director of a company will be responsible for the management of that company and oversee the state of its affairs.
In March this year, the Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Minister John McVeigh announced that the Queensland Government would undertake a comprehensive review of fisheries management in our state. This announcement follows on from the East Coast Commercial Net Fishing Licence Buy Back which commenced last year and is ongoing.
The Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia has recently handed down a decision in Richardson v Oracle Corporation of Australia[1] ordering an employer to pay $100,000 in general damages (pain and suffering and loss of enjoyment of life) to the victim of sexual harassment who suffered from a psychological injury.
The law surrounding unfair dismissal in Australia is plenty. Avenues are afforded to employees in order to ensure that their employment is not terminated harshly, unjustly or unreasonably.
In the light of recent ‘One Punch Can Kill’ media campaigns the Victorian Government has announced their intention to introduce mandatory minimum sentencing of 10 years for ‘king-hit’ killers, following the example set in New South Wales after public outrage when Kieran Loveridge received a 4 year sentence for punching Thomas Kelly at King’s Cross in Sydney, resulting in Kelly’s death.
Caitlin Roberts of our Mackay office was admitted as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Queensland in Rockhampton on 14 July 2014.
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