Tal Williams, Partner within Holman Webb’s Technology Law and Business, Corporate and Commercial groups will be presenting at Greenlight ITC's upcoming CyberSafety Brunch and Learn 2020 event – taking place on 21 February at Mantra Hotel in Chatswood.

Before midnight on 31 December 2019, review all discretionary trust deeds and amend them to satisfy the no foreign beneficiary requirement and the no amendment requirement.

• Should lawyers expressly encourage clients to consider the organisation's values when considering their advice?
• Directors and senior executives must put in a serious effort to understand the culture of their organisation.
• Legislative change to the financial services provisions of the Corporations Act have introduced a new test that applies to all dishonesty offences.

As many readers will be aware, the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in May 2018. Since the introduction of the regulation, there have been a range of interesting developments, some of which this piece takes a close look at.

Holman Webb's Insurance Team is delighted to invite readers to attend our upcoming October insurance breakfast seminar. 

Many readers will be aware that the mandatory data breach reporting requirements in Australia have been in operation since February of 2018. In September last year Holman Webb reported on the statistics provided by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner relating to the quarter ending July 2018.

In the 2018 Federal Budget, the government announced that it proposed to reform relevant legislation so that regulators could more efficiently curtail illegal phoenix activity.

There are a wide range of factors that both employers and employees must take into consideration when ending an employment relationship. Whilst many points on the "end-of-employment checklist" are simple to action and take place without issue, one increasingly common point of contention is the question of what happens to the LinkedIn connections formed by an employee in the course of their employment.

Working steadily with broad coercive powers, numerous and highly visible Royal Commissions in Australia have uncovered shocking examples of corrupted cultures in organisations that must be concentrating the minds of directors everywhere.

It has become increasingly common for corporate groups to hold their trade marks and other intellectual property within a dedicated, non-trading entity.