LAW REFORM

• CLERP 9
• CAMAC and CASAC Reports and Discussion Papers
• Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services
• Companies & Securities Law Review Committee
• Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation Research Reports and Papers
• Other

CAMAC AND CASAC REPORTS AND DISCUSSION PAPERS

CAMAC website

Long-tail Liabilities: the Treatment of Unascertained Future Personal Injury Claims - CAMAC Report (May 2008)

Issues in External Administration - CAMAC Discussion Paper (Feb 2008)

Shareholder Claims Against Insolvent Companies - CAMAC Discussion Paper (Sep 2007)

The social responsibility of corporations (December 2006)

Personal liability for corporate fault (September 2006)

Corporate duties below board level (April 2006) Report (April 2006)

Directors and Officers Insurance Report (June 2004)

Report on rehabilitating large and complex enterprises in financial difficulties (October 2004)

CAMAC Insider Trading Report (November 2003)

Insider Trading Discussion Paper (June 2001)

Charges over Uncertificated Securities (April 2001)

Qualifications and Experience for Secretaries of Public Companies (August 2000)

Shareholder Participation in the Modern Listed Public Company (Company Meetings) (June 2000)

Corporate Groups (May 2000)

Jurisdictional Legal Risk for Collateral Securities (May 2000)

Liability of Members of Managed Investment Schemes (March 2000)

Compulsory Acquisitions (March 2000)

Compulsory Acquisitions and Buy-outs (March 1999)

Recommendations for Reform of ss 621(4) and 623(2) and (3) of the Corporate Law Economic Reform Program Bill 1998 (December 1998)

Corporate Voluntary Administration (June 1998)

Netting in Financial Markets Transactions (June 1997)

Regulation of On-exchange and OTC Derivatives Markets (June 1997)

Report on Continuous Disclosure (November 1996)

Compulsory Acquisitions (January 1996)

Law of Derivatives: An International Comparison (January 1995)

Anomalies in the Takeovers Provisions of the Corporations Law (March 1994)

Collective Investments: Other People's Money (September 1993)

Statutory Derivative Actions (July 1993)

Collective Investments: Superannuation (March 1992)

Company Directors and Officers: Indemnification, Relief and Insurance (February 1992)

An Enhanced Statutory Disclosure System (September 1991)

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PARLIMENTARY JOINT COMMITTEE ON CORPORATIONS AND FINANCIAL SERVICES

Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services website

Shareholder engagement & participation - PJC Inquiry

Inquiry into corporate social responsibility

Inquiry into the Exposure Draft of the Corporations Amendment Bill (Amendment No. 2) 2005 (June 2005)

Inquiry into the Exposure Draft of the Corporations Amendment Bill (No 2) 2005 (June 2005)

Corporate Insolvency Laws: A Stocktake (June 2004)

Part 2 of a two part Report on the CLERP (Audit Reform and Corporate Disclosure) Bill 2003 (CLERP 9) (June 2004).

Part 1 of a two part Report on the CLERP (Audit Reform and Corporate Disclosure) Bill 2003 (CLERP 9) (June 2004).

Report on the review of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (March 2003)

Inquiry into the Review of the Managed Investments Act 1998 (December 2002)

Inquiry into the regulations and ASIC policy statements made under the Financial Services Reform Act 2001 (October 2002)

Report on the Financial Services Reform Bill 2001 (August 2001)

Report on the Corporate Code of Conduct Bill 2000 (June 2001)

Report into the Provisions of (a) the Corporations (Commonwealth Powers) Act 2001 (NSW); and (b) the Corporations Bill 2001 and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission Bill 2001 (May 2001)

Report on Aspects of the Regulation of Proprietary Companies (March 2001)

Report on Fees on Electronic and Telephone Banking (February 2001)

Report on 'Shadow Ledgers' and the provision of Bank Statements to customers (October 2000)

Report on the Draft Financial Services Reform Bill (June 2000)

Report on the Mandatory Bid Rule (June 2000)

Report on the Corporations Law Amendment (Employee Entitlements) Bill 2000 (April 2000)

Matters arising from the Company Law Review Act 1998 (October 1999)

Corporate Law Economic Reform Program Bill 1998 (May 1999)

Report on the Managed Investments Bill 1997 (April 1998)

Report on the Company Law Review Bill 1997 (April 1998)

Report on Annual Reports 1995-1996 (June 1997)

Virtually No Liability?: Securities Markets in an Electronic Age - An Issues Paper (June 1997)

Draft Second Corporate Law Simplification Bill 1996 (November 1996)

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COMPANIES & SECURITIES LAW REVIEW COMMITTEE

Discussion Papers

No 2 - Partial takeover bids (March 1985)

No 4 - Share premiums (March 1986)

No 5 - A company's purchase of its own shares (June 1986)

No 6 - Prescribed interests (May 1987)

No 7 - Nominee directors and alternate directors (December 1987)

No 8 - Director's statutory duty to disclose interest and loans to directors (August 1988)

No 9 - Company directors and officers: indemnification, relief and insurance (April 1989)

No 10 - Shares of no par value and partly-paid shares (March 1990)

No 11 - Enforcement of the duties of directors and officers of a company by means of a statutory derivative action (July 1990)


Reports

No 1 - The takeover threshold (November 1984)

No 2 - Partial takeover bids (August 1985)

No 3 - Forms of legal organisation for small business enterprises (September 1985)

No 4 - Civil liability of company auditors (September 1986)

No 5 - Issue of shares for non-cash consideration and treatment of share premiums (September 1986)

No 6 - A company's purchase of its own shares (September 1987)

No 7 - Prescribed interests (August 1988)

No 8 - Nominee directors and alternate directors (March 1989)

No 9 - Director's statutory duty to disclose interest and loans to directors (November 1989)

No 10 - Company directors and officers: indemnification, relief and insurance (May 1990)

No 11 - Share of no par value and partly-paid shares (November 1990)

No 12 - Enforcement of the duties of directors and officers of a company by means of a statutory derivative action

 

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Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation Research Reports and Papers

Research Reports and Research Papers

Policy Research Reports


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OTHER

The Australian Federal Parliament's Public Accounts and Audit Committee issued a Report Review of Independent Auditing by Registered Company Auditors in September 2002 which made recommendations for changes to Australia's corporations law, corporate governance standards and private sector auditing practices.

Independence of Auditors - Submissions

Company Law Review Steering Group Final Report Modern Company Law For a Competitive Economy (UK)

Review of Regulation of Corporate Insolvency Practitioners

Multimedia prospectuses and other offer documents Issues paper by ASIC and Dr Elizabeth Boros which examines the appropriateness of including multimedia material in prospectuses and other disclosure documents

The Online Corporation ASIC discussion paper by Dr Elizabeth Boros that considers the use of electronic communications in the delivery and lodgement of documents and voting at general meetings.

"Report on the Social and Fiduciary Duties and Obligations of Company Directors" (November 1989) by the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs (Cooney Report) from the Takeovers Panel Website..

"Corporate Practices and the Rights of Shareholders" (November 1991) Report of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs (Lavarch Committee) from the Takeovers Panel Website.

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