Corporations Legislation
2020

Edmund Finnane

Edmund Finnane is a graduate of the Australian National University (Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws) and the University of New South Wales (Master of Laws & Corporate and Commercial). He has practised as a barrister in New South Wales since 1997, prior to which he was a solicitor for two years.

Edmund has a wide-ranging practice in commercial law and equity. He is particularly interested in corporate insolvency, mortgage law, equity, deceased estates, professional liability and contractual and other commercial disputes.

Edmund is the General Editor of the Company and Securities Law Journal, published by Thomson Reuters.

Edmund has published articles in the Commercial Law Quarterly and Law Society Journal. He is a director of the Commercial Law Association. Edmund has delivered seminars to members of the legal profession on areas including commercial damages, equity, insolvency law and de facto relationships law.

He is co-author of two books:

• Finnane, Newton and Wood, Equity Practice and Precedents (2nd edition), Thomson Reuters, 2019;
• Azize, El Khoury and Finnane, Pleading Precedents (6th edition), Thomson Reuters, 2009.

Jason Harris

Jason Harris is Professor of Corporate Law in the Sydney Law School at The University of Sydney where he teaches and researches in corporate law, corporate insolvency law and contract law. Jason has been teaching corporate law for 19 years and has taught previously at UTS, UNSW and the ANU and in 2017 served as President of the Corporate Law Teachers Association.

Jason is an active researcher in the corporate and commercial law fields having published 13 books, including Keay’s Insolvency (with Michael Murray, published by Thomson Reuters), the Annotated Personal Property Securities Act (with Nicholas Mirzai, published by Wolters Kluwer), Australian Corporate Law (with Anil Hargovan and Michael Adams, published by LexisNexis) and Company Law: Theories, Principles and Applications (published by LexisNexis). Jason has published over 90 articles in scholarly and professional journals. His research has been cited in more than 25 Supreme Court and Federal Court decisions and by the High Court of Australia, as well as in parliamentary inquiries and by the Productivity Commission and CAMAC. Jason sits on the editorial board of the Australian Journal of Corporate Law.

Jason is a fellow of the Governance Institute of Australia, a member of the Corporations and Insolvency Law Committees of the Business Law Section of the Law Council of Australia, a member of the Law Committee of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and an academic member of ARITA and INSOL International.

From 2004-2009, Jason wrote the case law annotations to the legislation contained in this book.

Corporations Legislation 2020 offers an extensive range of features to assist practitioners and students working with the Corporations Act 2001 and related legislation.

Features include:

• Key section authored annotations provide additional guidance on selected provisions.
• Annual Review highlighting the major corporations developments in the preceding year.
• History notes including the date of effect of the amending provision.
• Navigation tools supports easy reading and fast access to legislation sections, with the use of thumb tabs, running heads and section references.

• Side notes displayed in bold type inside square brackets to the right of a subsection number and clearly distinguished from the legislation and are designed to aid in the interpretation of the relevant subsections, where no subsection is contained within the actual text of the legislation.
• Cross-references to regulations are included at provision level, indicating where a particular regulation affects a section of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).
• Cross-references to related ASIC materials including ASIC Regulatory Guides, Class Orders and Forms are noted at section level.
• Subject index