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  • Food safety inspections found to be similar across countries

    Approaches to food safety inspections are similar between five countries but personal preferences could be responsible for some of the differences, according to a study. Research identified how environmental health practitioners (EHPs) from Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Ireland perform food safety inspections. Data was collected via an online survey...

  • Scientists call for safety standards to cover donated food

    There is a need for a specific food safety regulatory framework for donated food in Australia, according to researchers. Current national food safety laws and policies regulate businesses, but do not apply to donations. The study, published in the journal Food Policy, involved visually identifying and assessing the safety and quality of donations at an...

  • Wild mushroom warning sounded in Australia

    The Food Safety Information Council has warned people in Australia against picking and eating wild mushrooms. The charity raised several issues around picking mushrooms for consumption after recent wet weather in the country. Cathy Moir, chair of the Food Safety Information Council, said foraging for wild food is becoming popular, and is promoted by influencers...

  • International Women’s Day 2024: Pay gaps, the law of averages and accelerating progress

    International Women’s Day for 2024 has the important theme of Count Her In: Invest in Women. The UN talks about the importance of empowering women and investing in women in a range of ways. This includes accelerating women’s economic empowerment by recognising that when women entrepreneurs are successful, this can lead to more benefits. The...

  • Large vs Small, Group Ownership vs Independent – What Factors Influenced Firms’ Patent Filing Share in 2023?

    As I recently reported, Australian patent filings in 2023 fell slightly, by 2.4%, over the previous year. This implies, of course, that patent attorneys filing applications on behalf of domestic and foreign clients should, overall, also have experienced a similar decline new filings. But, of course, individual firms fared differently in the competition for this...

  • The next ten years: Seyfarth’s partners discuss the future of employment and workplace safety law in Australia

    In our previous post celebrating the firm’s decade in Australia, our partners shared their insights into the most significant changes in employment and safety law that have affected leading employers. This post further explores our partners’ perspectives on the major changes and trends that they anticipate will have a major impact on Australian businesses in...

  • A Decade in Australia: Seyfarth’s Partners Reflect on Changes in Employment and Workplace Safety Law

    By Rachel Bernasconi, Paul Cutrone, Marissa Dreher, Ben Dudley, Chris Gardner, Erin Hawthorne, Justine Giuliani, Sarah Goodhew, Philippa Noakes, Darren Perry, Penny Stevens, Henry Skene and Michael Tamvakologos Seyfarth just celebrated ten years of service to leading employers in Australia. To mark the occasion, we invited some of our partners to share insights on the evolution of employment, industrial relations and workplace safety in Australia over the past ten...

  • The Restructuring Outlook in Australia, Asia Pacific and the US in 2024

    In our latest insight we look back at the key restructuring cases and events from last year in the United States, Asia-Pacific, and Australia and consider the outlook in 2024 for restructuring transactions as a whole. This insight provides an overview of the US banking crisis involving Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank, the...

  • A Decade in Australia: Seyfarth’s Partners Reflect on Changes in Employment and Workplace Safety Law

    By Rachel Bernasconi, Paul Cutrone, Marissa Dreher, Ben Dudley, Chris Gardner, Erin Hawthorne, Justine Giuliani, Sarah Goodhew, Philippa Noakes, Darren Perry, Penny Stevens, Henry Skene and Michael Tamvakologos Seyfarth just celebrated ten years of service to leading employers in Australia. To mark the occasion, we invited some of our partners to share insights on the evolution of employment, industrial relations and workplace safety in Australia over the past...

  • A decade in Australia: Seyfarth’s partners reflect on changes in employment and workplace safety law

    Seyfarth just celebrated ten years of service to leading employers in Australia. To mark the occasion, we invited some of our partners to share insights on the evolution of employment, industrial relations and workplace safety in Australia over the past ten years. What have been the biggest changes in employment law, industrial relations and workplace...

Featured documents

  • Predicting Depression Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

    An article by Harvey S. Levin, Ph.D. and colleagues entitled Predicting Depression Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury concludes that there is support for the feasibility of identifying patients with mild traumatic brain injury who are high risk for developing major depressive episode by three...

  • Incidence of Dizziness in Traumatic Brain Injury

    An article in the March 2006 issue of Brain Injury (a publication of the International Brain Injury Association) featured an overview and measurement of dizziness after traumatic brain injury....

  • Women referring cases to divorce lawyers 24/7

    No better use of computers, as far I’m concerned, than connecting people in need of legal services with good lawyers. An Australian computer programer running a national business is doing just that. As reported by Australia’s The Age: …Sohila Zanjani is a law graduate and the owner and director of...

  • Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 2/10/08

    News on this Sunday comes from as close as Seattle and as far away as Australia, where Nicholas Weston writes about an ongoing legal battle between two leading names in the chocolate business. Global healthcare costs are rising – Management consultant Cliff Mintz of BioInsights Inc. in his Bio Job...

  • Friends of the Earth Australia Calls for an Immediate Moratorium on the Use of Carbon Nanotubes

    In its latest Background Paper, entitled Mounting Evidence That Carbon Nanotubes May Be the New Asbestos, Friends of the Earth Australia (FOEA) is calling “for an immediate moratorium on the commercial use of carbon nanotubes and the sale of products that incorporate nanotubes until research can...

  • The Entrepreneurial Litigation Industry

    What will the global litigation industry look like in 10 years? My bet is that it will look increasingly entrepreneurial, and more like the litigation industry as it presently exists outside the US. In Australia, a personal injury law firm known as Slater & Gordon went public back in May 2007, as...

  • International Whistleblower News

    [Australia] Thompson, Tuck, “Police whistleblower sent home, told to see psychiatrist, Couriermail.com.au, October 12, 2009. A veteran officer who has exposed cronyism and corruption in the police force has been ordered off work even though his doctor says he is fit for duty. Sergeant Robbie Munn – ...

  • Cosmetics, Nanoparticles and FOE-AUS

     Friends of the Earth – Australia (FOE-Aus) recently released a new report examining the presence of nanoparticles in cosmetics produced by such well known companies as Revlon, Max Factor, and The Body Shop. In the press release accompanying the report, FOE-Aus noted that the labeling on cosmetics...

  • Litigation Funding Changing The Game to Open Access to Courts in Australia; RAND Litigation Funding Conference on May 20 and 21 in DC Area

    D & O Diary reports on and links to a new NERA study of the rapidly increasing rate of securities class actions in Australia. Of note, a major factor is said to be litigation funding provided by IMF (Australia) Ltd. The IMF firm is contributing one of several excellent speakers at a May 20 and 21...

  • Passenger With Meningococcal Disease Rescued From P&O Cruises’ Pacific Sun Cruise Ship

    A “Careflight Rescue” helicopter winched a 48 year-old passenger with a suspected case of the potentially fatal meningococcal disease from a cruise ship off the south-east  coast of Australia.  Several news have reported the incident; however, no one disclosed the name of the cruise ship or cruise...

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