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In an Australian legal first, Justice Attiwill of the Supreme Court of Victoria has determined that a person’s interest in Bitcoin is property. This case is ground-breaking, as it is the first superior court proceedin ...

AUSTRAC is hosting its 2024 AML/CTF Advisers Forum in Melbourne and Sydney this month where discussions shed light on the regulatory priorities of Australia’s principle money laundering regulator. Buoyed by the pote ...

Australian Securities and Exchange Commission (ASIC) has reissued its Regulatory Guide 121 including updated guidance to overseas companies on whether they are, and how they can compliantly, conduct a financial service ...

The validity of a patent relies, amongst other things, on the claimed invention involving an inventive step. This requires the claimed invention to not be obvious to a person skilled in the relevant art, in light of the ...

In a hearing of the Senate Economics Legislation Committee this week, Australia’s securities regulator, ASIC, confirmed that its expect to release a draft update to its Information Sheet 225 (its main regulatory guida ...

As global regulators sharpen their focus on crypto-assets, jurisdictions are testing a range of tax approaches – from Denmark’s proposal to tax unrealised crypto-asset gains, to less aggressive up-front frameworks th ...