CORPORATE LAW WEBSITES

• The Corporations Act 2001
• Legal databases
• Company legislation
• ASIC
• Centre For Corporate Law and Securities Regulation
• Corporate law reform
• Australian Securities Exchange
• Other stock exchanges
• Regulatory bodies
• Government
• Professional organisations
• Newspapers
• Online Publications

The Corporations Act 2001 from Comlaw website

Legal databases

• Australian Legal Information Institute
  Austlii is a comprehensive, searchable database of Australian legislation and cases
• Comlaw
  Comlaw is a website established on 1 January 2005 by the Australian Attorney-General's Department. It contains Commonwealth primary legislation and the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments. This website will progressively replace the old SCALEplus website which contains pre-2005 legislation and historical databases of superceded legislation.
• Corporate Law Judgments
  Database established by the University of Melbourne's Centre for Corporate Law & Securities Regulation containing recent corporate law judgments
• FindLaw Australia
  Contains up to date legal news and summaries of High Court decisions
• FindLaw
  Leading US legal web portal. It offers access to a vast library of legal resources from a US perspective.
• Worldlii
  A global legal research facility.
• British and Irish Legal Information Institute
  BAILII is the most comprehensive legal data base of British and Irish legal materials.

Company legislation

• CLERP 9
  
• Corporate Law Economic Reform Program
  Search for CLERP in the Treasury website search engine.
  
• Financial Services Reform Act explanatory memorandum on the SCALEplus website.
  

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ASIC

• ASIC's homepage
• ASIC Annual Reports
• ASIC InFocus - ASIC magazine
• ASIC Media & Information Releases
• Speeches
• ASIC Newsletter
• ASIC Policy Statements & Practice Notes
• Company Forms
• National Names Index - Search for all currently registered names
• ASIC lodgment fees - Fees for commonly lodged documents (pdf file requires Acrobat Reader)
• Checklist for registered companies and their officers - ASIC summary of document lodgment requirements
• Constitution and Replaceable Rules - ASIC information on constitution and replaceable rules
• Advice on the internet - ASIC advice
• Penalty Notices - ASIC information
• Company resolutions - ASIC information
• What books & records should my company keep? - ASIC information

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Centre For Corporate Law and Securities Regulation

• Centre For Corporate Law and Securities Regulation
  • Research Reports and Papers
    
  • Policy Research Reports
    
  • Corporate Law Judgements
    
  • Corporate Law Bulletins (September 1997-November 2004)

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Australian Securities Exchange

• ASX homepage
• ASX Corporate Governance Council, Principles of Good Corporate Governance and Best Practices Recommendations
• ASX Listing Rules
• Listed companies
  Australian Financial Services Directory of contains addresses & websites of Australian listed companies
• How to list on the ASX
  ASX publication
• CHESS
• How the sharemarket works
  ASX publication
• What are Exchange Traded Options
  ASX publication

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Other stock exchanges

• World Stock Exchanges
  Links to approximately 90 Stock Exchanges from Centre for Corporate Law & Securities website
• International Federation of Stock Exchanges

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Regulatory bodies

• Australian Accounting Standards Board
• Auditing and Assurance Standards Board
• Takeovers Panel
• Sydney Futures Exchange
• World Securities Commissions
  Links to approximately 40 Securities Commissions from Centre for Corporate Law & Securities website
• International Organization of Securities Commissions
  This website contains speeches from the annual conferences of IOSCO and other public documents dealing with international regulation
• Takeovers and Securities Regulators from the Takeovers Panel website.

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Government

• Commonwealth Treasury

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Professional organisations

• Australian Institute of Company Directors homepage
• Australian Shareholders' Association homepage
• Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants homepage
• Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation
  This website contains archived past issues of the email Corporate Law Bulletin which includes case notes, legislative and other update developments. This site also hosts Corporate Law Judgments and provides links to other websites relevant to corporate law
• Chartered Secretaries Australia homepage
• Insolvency Practitioners Association homepage
• Institute of Chartered Accountants homepage
• Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) homepage
• Group 100 - The association of Chief Financial Officers.
  
  

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Newspapers

• Australian Newspapers on the Internet
  National Library's collection of newspaper sites

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Online Publications

• Bond Law Review
• Corporate Law Electronic Bulletin
  Searchable monthly bulletin compiled by the Centre for Corporate Law & Securities Regulation containing corporate law news, recent developments & case notes. This archive goes up to June 2001. Later Bulletins are accessible to subscribers only.
• Corporate Law Research Papers
  Website of research papers about recent corporate law developments compiled by the Centre for Corporate Law & Securities Regulation
• E Law - Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law
• Melbourne University Law Review
• Current Commercial Law eZine
• Queensland University of Technology Law and Justice Journal
• Deakin Law Review
• SRi Media
  Provides corporate governance news and information largely focussed on developments in the US and European Union
• Sydney Law Review

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