Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Presumption** of disclosure of beneficial share ownership

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Recent View posts have considered a number of aspects of the ASIC requirement that the beneficial ownership of shares in a private company b...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

(Stripped) Bare** trust share ownership

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Recent View posts have looked at the various issues in relation to notifying the ASIC of the beneficial ownership of shareholdings in a priv...
Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Updating ASIC records – Simple (Simon)**

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Last week’s post touched on some of the issues in relation to disclosure of beneficial ownership of shares on ASIC records. In situations wh...
Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Relationships of share ownership** and the ASIC

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Happy New Year! Up until the early 2000’s, the ASIC required only very basic information in relation to the share ownership in companies. Fr...
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

I can see clearly now ** – how to use a deed of clarification

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Previous View posts have explored the difficulties that can arise when steps are taken (for example to change a trustee of a family trust) ...
Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Full names in wills – do the right thing**

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Over the last few days, we have had some difficulties in progressing with the administration of an estate for a client where the deceased wi...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Super death benefits and conflicts of interest: Guilt is a useless emotion**

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Previous View posts have explored arguably the highest profile decision in relation to the obligation of a legal personal representative ( L...