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- Clayton Utz advises Tox Free Solutions on successful completion of A$85 million Wanless acquisition
- Clayton Utz has acted as legal counsel to ASX-listed integrated waste management and industrial service company Tox Free Solutions Ltd in respect of its acquisition of the assets and business of Wanless Enviro Services Pty Ltd, Smart Skip Pty Ltd and Jones Enviro Services Pty Ltd, and certain of the assets of Wanless Enviro Asset Management Pty Ltd. The acquisition, which was announced on 30 April, completed today.
- Clayton Utz a finalist at 2013 ALB Australasian Law Awards
- Clayton Utz is in the running for several awards at the 2013 ALB Australasian Law Awards, which recognise and celebrate the legal profession's achievements and successes over a 12-month period.
- New environmental levy on Northern Territory mines
- The Northern Territory Government will impose a new 1% levy on all environmental rehabilitation security bonds from October 2013 to fund the rehabilitation of legacy mine sites.
- Accountants, lawyers and the privileged class: R v Special Commissioner of Income Tax
- Are communications between accountants/tax agents and their clients protected by client professional privilege? Philip Bisset and Antony Barrier look at the current state of play.
- ICLG Lending and Secured Finance 2013 - Australia
- David Fagan gives some insights into Australian lending and secured finance
- NSW Supreme Court gives important guidance about damages in wrongful birth claims
- The NSW Supreme Court's keenly anticipated decision in Waller v James [2013] NSWSC 497 has given some useful guidance about several damages issues in wrongful birth claims.
- Tradeable water rights excluded from "derivatives" regulation
- Tradeable water rights and arrangements in relation to tradeable water rights will be excluded from the definition of a "derivative" in Chapter 7 of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).
- One policy to rule them all: Queensland's single State Planning Policy
- The key framework of the Queensland State Government's planning reform has been released in draft form. Kathryn Pacey and Ian Motti examine what's in it, and how it will work as part of the new planning system.
