| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
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| 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
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |