BLB News
EMPLOYER ACCESS TO FORMER EMPLOYEE'S EMAILS
01/03/2013
Does the employer own the emails sent by its executives if sent from a private email address or server? The answer may be NO.LIFE’S TOO SERIOUS...NOW THAT'S A GOLDMINE
01/03/2013
An Accountant was crossing a road one day when a frog called out to him and said...CAN YOU SELL AN EMAIL ADDRESS LIST WHEN YOU SELL YOUR BUSINESS?
01/02/2013
Many businesses have a client database with the client’s email address. But if you’re the business can you sell that database or will that breach the SPAM law?THE DYNAMIC DUO FIGHT MISLEADING ADVERTISING
01/02/2013
The ‘Dynamic Duo’ of ASIC and the ACCC continue to fight misleading advertising in their own areas, making it doubly hard for villains marshalling misleading mendacity.COURT BATTERS ADVISER DISCLAIMERS
01/02/2013
“Synthetic Collateralised Debt Obligations” – have you glazed over yet? SCDO’s, as the financial boys call them, are financial products that were sold to a number of councils as, wait for it, “capital secure and liquid”. When Wingecarribee Shire Council lost a substantial amount of money by investing in them they took action against their adviser, Grange Securities, who had been taken over by Lehman Brothers Australia. The decision in Wingecarribee Shire Council v Lehman Brothers Australia Ltd (in liq) (2012) affects all players in the financial advising industry and perhaps even beyond.