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Smarter Lawcast with Hall & Wilcox — 189 episodes

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How can Australian businesses build trust with customers around privacy and data?

2

Property development tax: capital vs revenue rules

3

What’s in a name? Identity, belonging and getting it right

4

Tax Records - Are gifts of money from overseas taxable in Australia?

5

AI and legal professional privilege in Australia and the UK (Part 2)

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Can Australia produce its own fuel? Inside the Cleaner Fuels Program

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AI and legal professional privilege in Australia and the UK (Part 1)

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Tax Records - What to consider when claiming the R&D tax incentive in Australia

9

What happens if your will is invalid in Australia?

10

Informal wills: what are they and how do you avoid them?

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What are Australian courts and regulators saying about AI and legal professional privilege?

12

AI and legal professional privilege - Can using AI waive privilege?

13

Business Succession - Succession planning for family businesses: family offices, boards and values

14

Self-insurers in Australia - Psychological injuries at work in WA and SA

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Business Succession - Succession planning: do you hold your business interests together with third parties?

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Self-insurers in Australia - Psychological injuries at work in ACT and NT

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Australia’s international law obligations for climate change

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Business Succession - Succession planning for business owners and families: fundamentals and foundations

19

Self-insurers in Australia - Psychological injuries at work in Queensland

20

Doing Business in Australia - Spotlight on migration and employment trends

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Self-insurers in Australia - Psychological injuries at work in Victoria

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Doing Business in Australia - Spotlight on South East Asia

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Self-insurers in Australia - Psychological injuries at work in New South Wales

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Doing Business in Australia - Spotlight on the UK

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Doing Business in Australia - Spotlight on the US

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Navigating whistleblower obligations under the new Aged Care Act

27

Tax Records - What triggers a Tax Practitioners Board review and how to prepare

28

Cyberzone: Data, ransomware & the power of cyber injunctions

29

Tax Records - Section 167 assessments: Asset betterment methodology

30

Mergers for not-for-profits: what you need to know

31

Tax Records – What you need to know about state taxes in 2025

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Tax Records – Building a strong tax governance framework

33

Cultural Inclusion Conversations - Breaking barriers in legal recruitment

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Self-insurers in Australia - Injuries at work in Queensland

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Empowered women - Bringing it all together

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Self-insurers in Australia - Injuries at work in Western Australia and South Australia

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Empowered women - The truth about binding financial agreements for women

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Self-insurers in Australia - Injuries at work in the ACT and Northern Territory

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Empowered women - Smart financial planning for women who want control

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Self-insurers in Australia - Injuries at work in Victoria

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Empowered women - Estate planning 101: What every woman needs to know

42

Self-insurers in Australia - Injuries at work in New South Wales

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Cyberzone: Episode 2, Part 2 - Ransomware: should you pay and mandatory reporting

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Cultural Inclusion Conversations - Why is diversity and inclusion good for business?

45

Cyberzone: Episode 2, Part 1 - Demystifying ransomware

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Cyberzone: Episode 1 - Inside the response to Australia’s biggest cyber threats

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Cultural Inclusion Conversations - Overcoming the bamboo ceiling

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Cultural Inclusion Conversations - Why are cultural inclusion conversations important?

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Trusts Matters – Trusts: lost trust deeds

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Trusts Matters – Trusts: beneficiaries and rights to information

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Trusts Matters: Trust disputes and trustee discretion

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Trusts Matters – Trust variations: how to avoid being caught out

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Spotlight on Health Regulation – Social media and advertising guidelines: guidance for health practitioners

54

Risk Ready: Business Restructuring – Key issues impacting the aged care sector

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Risk Ready: Business Restructuring – Key issues impacting the retail industry

56

Spotlight on Health Regulation – Vapes and vaping: regulation in Australia

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Risk Ready: Business Restructuring – Key issues impacting building and construction sector

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Spotlight on Health Regulation: Medicinal cannabis – Australia’s regulatory environment

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Spotlight on Health Regulation: Recent prosecutions and regulator focus

60

The ECM Exchange: Understanding reverse takeovers

61

Spotlight on Construction Law: The superintendent’s role in construction projects

62

The ECM Exchange: Capital raising and issue pricing restrictions for listed and unlisted funds

63

Navigating AML/CTF: Independent reviews of AML/CTF programs

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The ECM Exchange – Cyberattacks and continuous disclosure: what ASX-listed entities need to know

65

Navigating AML/CTF: Risks and common failures of AML/CTF programs

66

The ECM Exchange: Navigating shareholder approvals and capital raising essentials

67

Navigating AML/CTF: Outsourcing obligations under AML/CTF rules

68

Tax Records – Essential tax considerations for clients on the move

69

Navigating AML/CTF – AML/CTF: Knowing your client

70

Tax Records – Navigating wage and superannuation underpayments: avoiding costly pitfalls

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Navigating AML/CTF – AML/CTF: latest reforms and developments

72

Tax Records – New Administrative Review Tribunal: what changes will it introduce?

73

Becoming a Philanthropist: The joy of collective giving

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Becoming a philanthropist – Having a philanthropic impact in life and beyond

75

Becoming a philanthropist – What is a Private Ancillary Fund (PAF) and should I set one up?

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Becoming a philanthropist – Philanthropic giving: what is it and how do I do it?

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Health and aged care – international perspective: Healthcare: Australia and UK trends

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Health and aged care – international perspective: Life sciences: Australia and UK trends

79

Doing Business in Australia: tax and customs compliance

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Doing business in Australia: spotlight on the US

81

Doing business in Australia: international wealth and cross border succession planning

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Doing business in Australia: employment and migration trends

83

Doing business in Australia: the Foreign Investment Review Board – key takeaways for foreign investors or advisors

84

Spotlight on Aged Care: Insurance and risk factors facing aged care

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Spotlight on Aged Care: Employment and tax issues facing the aged care sector

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Spotlight on Aged Care: Restructuring in aged care

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Spotlight on aged care: Aged care reforms – what is proposed and how it will impact providers

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Spotlight on aged care: Mergers and acquisitions and governance issues in aged care

89

Building better boards and leaders – Generative AI: benefits and risks

90

The ECM Exchange: Key changes to the ASX Corporate Governance Principles and Recommendations – draft 5th edition

91

Building better boards and leaders: employee fraud and corruption – part 2

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The ECM Exchange: Proposed changes to wholesale client and sophisticated investor tests

93

Building better boards and leaders: employee fraud and corruption – part 1

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The ECM Exchange: Convertible notes

95

Building better boards and leaders: privacy and cyber readiness

96

The ECM Exchange: Climate reporting and financial reports

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Risk Ready: business restructuring: Professional services firms: how to restructure equity and manage owner exits – part 2

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Risk Ready: business restructuring: Professional services firms: how to restructure equity and manage owner exits – part 1

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Spotlight on Construction Law: Green construction and carbon emissions: a contractor’s view

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Risk Ready: business restructuring – Common tax issues in business restructures

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Spotlight on Construction Law: Green construction and carbon emissions: a developer’s view

102

Risk Ready: business restructuring – Safe harbour and insolvent trading

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Risk Ready: business restructuring – When is a director personally liable for a company’s outstanding tax debts?

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Building better boards and leaders – ESG insights: new risks, compliance and sustainability metrics that matter – part 2

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Building better boards and leaders – ESG insights: new risks, compliance and sustainability metrics that matter – part 1

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Building better boards and leaders: Boards behaving badly

107

Building better boards and leaders: How to build legally compliant, healthy and inclusive organisations

108

Building better boards and leaders: Key issues facing boards and executive leaders

109

Living the law grad life – Q&A with our law grads: answering our listeners’ questions

110

Living the law grad life – From law graduate to partner: two Hall & Wilcox career stories

111

Living the law grad life – Bring your whole self to work: work/life balance in the legal industry

112

Living the law grad life – Pro bono: giving back to the community

113

The ECM Exchange – Cleansing notices

114

New unfair contract terms regime: are you ready?

115

The ECM Exchange – Shareholder activism and defamation

116

Living the law grad life – Busting insurance myths with Matt Curll

117

The ECM Exchange – ESG: what listed entities need to know

118

Spotlight on Construction Law – Construction contracts: any quick fixes to reduce the risk of insolvency? An expert's view

119

The ECM Exchange: How to prepare for AGM season

120

Living the law grad life – Early careers recruitment: preparing for law graduate and clerkship applications and interviews

121

Tax Records – Cyber security and data privacy: how it could impact you

122

Tax Records – Australia’s individual tax residency rules – proposed changes

123

Spotlight on Construction Law – Construction contracts: any quick fixes to reduce risk of insolvency?

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Living the law grad life: Working at Hall & Wilcox – hear from our Managing Partner

125

Tax Records – What to consider when selling a professional services business: part 2

126

Tax Records – What to consider when selling a professional services business: part 1

127

Living the law grad life: Working at Hall & Wilcox – meet our law grad hosts

128

Risk Ready: business restructuring – Business restructuring – Risks directors face when business is in financial difficulty

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Risk Ready: business restructuring – Buying a distressed business – issues to consider

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Risk Ready: business restructuring – Banking and corporate structuring issues for distressed businesses

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Risk Ready: business restructuring – Contract flexibility

132

The ECM Exchange – Executive remuneration and equity plans

133

The ECM Exchange – Listed company acquisitions: issues for directors

134

The ECM Exchange: Raising capital in volatile times

135

Cyberzone – Cyber and identity protection: the rise and importance of ID care

136

Investing with purpose

137

Succession planning for blended families: Change of relationship status: legal issues to consider

138

Tax Records – Tax issues in M&A transactions: part 2

139

Succession planning for blended families: Superannuation and blended families

140

Being ESG Wise - latest developments in the UK

141

Tax Records – Tax issues in M&A transactions: part 1

142

Succession planning for blended families: Mutual wills

143

Silicon Valley Bank: what happened?

144

Cyberzone – Cyber attacks and continuous disclosure: when and what to notify the market

145

Tax Records – Update on section 100A and Guardian AIT decision

146

Succession planning for blended families: Succession planning challenges

147

IWD special: You can’t be what you can’t see

148

Tech Talks – Gender equality in the tech and startup sector: International Women’s Day special

149

Cyberzone – The keys to cyber insurance and systemic cyber risks

150

Tax Records – Demystifying the M&A process: part 2

151

Tax Records – Demystifying the M&A process: part 1

152

AI: the fifth industrial revolution? – AI: ethics and the public sector

153

AI: the fifth industrial revolution? – AI and copyright: an uneasy fit?

154

AI: the fifth industrial revolution? – AI and the legal sector: potential benefits and drawbacks

155

Being ESG Wise – regulatory scrutiny of greenwashing claims

156

Extreme weather: delays, disruptions and insurance issues for the FMCG sector

157

Extreme weather: legal issues – Planning issues, climate change and human rights

158

Being ESG Wise – anti-corruption and executive accountability

159

Cyberzone – Crisis communications in a cyber incident – getting it right, with Rhys Ryan, CEO of Porter Novelli Australia

160

Cyberzone – Cyber risk landscape with leading cyber partner Shane Bell from McGrathNicol

161

Being ESG Wise – A client’s story: Centuria Capital Group’s approach to ESG

162

Cyberzone – The Optus breach and is cyber insurance getting a bad rap?

163

Being ESG Wise – The EU taxonomy: ESG in Europe

164

Being ESG Wise – Greenwashing: what is it and should I be worried?

165

Being ESG Wise – What is ESG and why is it important?

166

Tax Records – Startups and ESOPs: seven top tips

167

Tax Records – Crypto, NFTs, DeFi and staking: hot topics in tax

168

Tax Records – Help! I’ve received a Top 500 or Next 5,000 letter from the ATO

169

Tax Records – ATO debt collection powers and director penalty notice regime

170

Doing business in Australia: Australian Customs: compliance requirements

171

Doing business in Australia: Australia’s dispute resolution process

172

Doing business in Australia: All about Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB)

173

Doing business in Australia: Australia's employment and visa issues

174

Doing business in Australia: How to enter the Australian market

175

Tax Records – How does tax apply to cryptocurrencies or NFTs?

176

Tax Records – Contractors v employees: tax risks to be aware of

177

Tax Records – Welcome to the danger zone: ATO guidance on section 100A

178

You can’t say that!: Reforms in the pipeline

179

You can’t say that!: Recent game changers

180

You can’t say that!: Responding to defamation claims

181

You can’t say that!: Protecting reputations

182

Tax Records – Why all the hype around cryptocurrencies and NFTs?

183

Tax Records – In the payroll tax crosshairs: is your business next?

184

Tax Records – Tax compliance: how do I manage my risks?

185

Tax Records – Pandora Papers: What are they, why should we care and what do I do if I’m named?

186

The changing landscape of employment law: underpayments

187

The changing landscape of employment law: migration

188

The changing landscape of employment law: flexible working

189

The changing landscape of employment law: mandatory vaccinations