• Cracking down on corporate fraud

    Elise Bant     |      August 28, 2024

    A landmark decision by the Australian High Court means that corporations can now be held directly responsible for their predatory business models.

  • ACCC v big tech – Round 10

    Elise Bant     |      May 4, 2022

    The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is taking on Big Tech again – this time in the form of Meta – to dismantle one of the main excuses major technology firms use to disclaim responsibility for their actions.

  • Rio Tinto and the anatomy of corporate culpability

    Elise Bant     |      September 13, 2020

    Heads have finally rolled over the mining company’s shameful destruction of the Juukan Gorge rock shelter, but what are the legal implications and how does corporate culture matter?

  • Holding corporations to account

    Elise Bant     |      May 14, 2020

    The slippery concept of corporate guilt too often allows companies off the hook and Australian law needs reforming to ensure corporations are held responsible for their actions.  

  • Corporates should have to play by the rules too

    Elise Bant     |      September 29, 2018

    Corporate indifference and disregard for the rule of law in Australia requires a firmer hand to remedy it and tougher penalties for transgressors.