ENFORCEMENT OF CONTINUOUS DISCLOSURE LAWS BY THE AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION

This section note is written by Ian Ramsay who is the Harold Ford Professor of Commercial Law and the Director of the Centre for Corporate Law and Securities Regulation, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. This research note is part of a keynote address titled "Public and Private Enforcement of Directors' Duties and Securities Laws - What is the Right Balance?" The address was delivered at the Singapore Management University Centre for Cross Border Commercial Law in Asia and the Singapore Academy of Law Conference on Comparative Enforcement of Corporate and Securities Laws in Asia, Supreme Court of Singapore, 17-18 July 2014. The data contained in the speech has been updated for the purpose of this section note to 31 January 2015.