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 Abstracts & Papers


Monday 11:00 - 12:30 pm
Parallel One - 9 papers in 3 sessions
Session 1 Corporate Crime - Chair: Prof Ian Ramsay - Long Room
Karen Wheelwright Goodbye directing mind and will, hello management failure’: are we yet to welcome in a more effective model of corporate criminal liability?
Kristy Richardson The Corporation as Criminal and “Corporate” Individuals are too: A study of Queensland statutory provisions
Kath Hall Corporate Capture: The Psychology of Corporate Dishonesty
 
Session 2 Corporate Governance Chair: Paula Darvas - BMW Room
Michael Rawling Australian Trade Unions As Shareholder Activists
Pey-Woan Lee and Lusina Ho The Director’s Duty to Confess – A Matter of Good Faith?
Luke Nottage Nothing New in the (North) East? Interpreting the Rhetoric and Reality of Japanese Corporate Governance
 
Session 3 Non-financial reporting Issues (as agency costs) Chair: Struan Scott - Conference Room
Allan Hutchinson The Companies We Keep: Corporate Governance For A Democratic Age
John Howe and Adrian Evans Enhancing Corporate Accountability Through Contextual Ethical Exercises
Trish Keeper Hard Decisions About Soft Law


Monday 3.30 - 5.30pm
Parallel Two - 12 papers in 3 sessions
Session 4 SME Corporate governance Chair: Prof Jean du Plessis - Long Room
Andrew Clarke SMEs and Corporate governance: Politics, Resources and Trickle-down Effects
Kamal Ghosh Ray Aligning Corporate Governance With The Objectives Of Small Medium Enterprises
Aishah Bidin
Creating a conducive legal and regulatory framework for SMEs in Malaysia- An agenda of reform
Janine Pascoe Guarantees: Financial Services Regulation and the role of ASIC
   
Session 5 Shareholder Protection Chair: Professor Jennifer Hill - BMW Room
Professor Roman Tomasic and Professor Neil Andrews Minority Shareholder Protection in China’s Top 100 Listed Companies
Jane Fu Minority Protection in the PRC and Australia: Is Directive Action More Effective Than Derivative Action
Gonzalo Villalta Puig The Corporations Power and a National Workplace Relations System
 
Session 6 Financial reporting & Agency costs: Chair Professor Stephen Bottomley - Conference Room
Guanghua YU The Regulation of Executive Compensation: An Agency Perspective
Kym Sheehan Is the outrage constraint an effective constraint on executive remuneration? Evidence from the UK and preliminary results from Australia
Robert Langton and Lindsay Trotman Rethinking auditors’ liability


Tuesday 9.30 - 11:00
Parallel Three 6 Speakers in 2 sessions
Session 7 Corporate governance/ethics/CSR Chair: Chris Symes - Long Room
Paula Darvas Describing the ‘social responsibility’ of companies in the language of human rights: extending legal theory?
Paul von Nessen and John Glover The Law of Unintended Consequences: International Accounting Standards, Listed Property Trusts, Perpetuities
Jagdeep Kaur Singh-Ladhar and Alison McCourt Human rights reporting by multinational corporations (MNEs)
   
Session 8 Takeover & securities Chair: Dr James Mayanja - BMW Room
Dr. Blanaid Clarke Hostile Takeovers and the Takeover Directive (2004/25)
Andrew Tuch Duties of target company directors: identifying company interests in assessing takeover bids
Alexander Loke
The Prospect of Securities Litigation in Singapore


Parallel 4 11:30am - 1:00pm
6 speakers in 2 sessions
Session 9 Corporate crime 2 - Long Room
Margaret Wang Imprisonment: the not-so-serious consequences for fraudulent executives in Taiwan
JT McGrath Aiding and abetting under criminal code & TPA
Chris Symes The Insolvent Company and its Former Officers as Criminal: Liquidators as Private Eyes, Police Officers and the Prosecution’s Expert Witnesses
   
Session 10 Debt & insolvency Chair: Barbara Gordon - BMW Room
Keith Fletcher Financial Assistance around the Pacific Rim: the persistence of dysfunctional provisions
Jason Harris and Anil Hargovan "Navigating the line between membership and creditor rights in corporate insolvencies: should members be permitted to claim contingent creditor status?"
Josephine Coffey Continuous Disclosure Penalties – An Additional Agency Cost?


Parallel Five 2:45 - 4:00pm
6 speakers in 2 sessions
Session 11 Shareholder value Chair: Dr Keith Fletcher - Long Room
Andrew Keay Shareholder Primacy And The Advent Of Enlightened Shareholder Value In The Development Of Corporate Law In The UK
David Wishart Make Shareholders The Moral Community But Make 'Em Responsible
Anne Durie Watching the gatekeepers - the MBR as minority protection
   
Session 12 Litigation Chair: Therese Wilson - BMW Room
Joan Loughrey Privileged Litigants: Shareholder Rights, Information Disclosure and Corporate Privilege
Suzanne Le Mire Document Destruction and Corporate Culture: A Victorian Initiative
Peta Spender Shareholder Litigation for Fun and Profit

Please refer to the Keynote Speakers page to read about our Plenary Speakers for 2006.