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      • Opportunities for Law Graduates/Solicitors
      • Related party transactions
      • Congratulations to our new Partner, Senior Associate, and two new Associates.
      • Congratulations to our new Partner, Sam Burnett
      • 2022 Budget: Good news for charities
      • Update on recent changes to the Corporations Act affecting members’ rights to elect to receive company documents
      • Updated transparency requirements under the Commonwealth Electoral Act
      • Pastoral care services DGR category
      • Resignation of director notification
      • Permanent changes to the Corporations Act regarding meetings and documents to come into force
      • Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers Launch Week
      • Prolegis Lawyers ranked Band 1 by Chambers
      • Recent changes to the Corporations Act for electronic meetings, notices, minute books and e-signing due to the Covid-19 pandemic
      • Recent decisions in Australian charity law – update
      • New requirements for DGRs to be registered as charities with the ACNC
      • High Court rules on who is a Casual employee
      • Streamlining of regulation of charities undertaking fundraising in NSW
      • Changes to Charities’ Financial Reporting Obligations
      • Changes to Casual Employment
      • Women’s Life Centre – A recent decision of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal regarding Public Benevolent Institutions (PBIs)
      • Final Report of the 2020 Review of Disability Standards for Education 2005
      • Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety - final report released
      • UPDATE 25 February 2021: Introducing ACNC Governance Standard 6 and changes to Basic Religious Charity eligibility
      • Treasury Consultation: Proposed changes to ACNC Governance Standard 3
      • Breaking: Charities to lose charitable status if they fail to join the National Redress Scheme
      • New Bill – Requiring DGRs to Register as Charities
      • Federal Budget 2020-21
      • NZ High Court finds Greenpeace NZ should be registered as a charity
      • A member of a charity has a fiduciary duty to act in the best interest of the charity?
      • Key Changes- incorporated associations in Queensland
      • Bill for new DGR category for Community Sheds now law
      • UPDATE 2 June 2020: SME Commercial Leasing Principles During COVID-19 - what does it mean for charities and not-for-profits?
      • Draft bill for new DGR Category: Men’s and Women’s Sheds
      • ACNC to review registered charities beginning with Public Benevolent Institutions in July 2020
      • Government response to the recommendations of the ACNC Legislation Review
      • Fundraising– considerations for charities, fundraisers and donors
      • Minute-taking post Banking Royal Commission
      • Taxation Ruling: 'in Australia' conditions
      • Key changes to the Victorian Fundraising Act
      • Religious Discrimination Bill- Update
      • New protections for whistleblowers – what does it mean for charities and not-for-profits? UPDATE
      • Significant Changes in Payment and Record Keeping Requirements for Clerical and Administrative Staff
      • New Tax Office Ruling - Fringe Benefits Provided to Religious Practitioners
      • ACNC External Conduct Standards - Update
      • Fair Work Australia decision will introduce changes in entitlements and record keeping requirements of clerical and administrative employees
      • Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability
      • National Redress Scheme Update
      • DGR reform proposals
      • Release of the ACNC Review Report
      • Not So Casual
      • ACNC External Conduct Standards - Public Consultation
      • Law on Advocacy by Charities
      • New ATO Draft Ruling on the fringe benefits tax: benefits provided to religious practitioners
      • Employment update - New numbers for key employment issues for a new tax year
      • Electoral disclosure & funding reform: why charities and NFPs should be concerned
      • Review of ACNC Framework
      • Reforming Administration of Tax Deductible Gift Recipients - a victory for common sense?
      • Righting Wrongs: Victoria takes lead on organisational child abuse legislation
      • Tax Deductible Gift Recipient Reform Opportunities
      • When may a charity board member be paid for their services?
      • #fixfundraising
      • Privacy Law Update: Mandatory Data Breach Notifications to come into force by the end of 2017
      • Good Things Come To Those Who Wait? ACNC releases Commissioner’s Interpretation Statement on Public Benevolent Institutions
      • Charities and the Australian Consumer Law - reducing duplication and confusion
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Level 4, 107 Mount Street
North Sydney NSW 2060
Australia

   +61 2 9466 5222

  info@prolegis.com.au

Melbourne

Level 12
500 Collins Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Australia

   +61 3 8672 2920

  info@prolegis.com.au

Expertise

We work exclusively in relation to charities, not-for-profits and philanthropy.

Governance

We provide strategic and practical advice on governance, compliance and risk management

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  • Examples of our work

  • Advising in relation to more effective governance structures such as simplifying and modernising membership structures
  • Advising on governance duties, failures and breaches of duties by directors and executives
  • Working with you to prepare constitution changes required for changing operations and laws
  • Advising in relation to appointment and succession of directors, including best practice in this area (skills based boards)
  • Proposed mergers and restructures, providing the constitutional implications of the various options
  • Reviewing and revising board policies and procedures on key risk areas
  • Assisting Boards in the recruitment of executives and related governance issues
  • Advising and assisting new NFPs to meet the full range of their legal compliance obligations, including fundraising and privacy issues, and specialist government regimes for children and aged care

  • Advising in relation to indemnity of directors and officers of charities
  • Advising a medical college on its membership structure and associated changes to its constitution
  • Advising a church on separating its church governance from its childcare activities
  • Advising a religious institution in relation to governance procedures to recover charity assets misappropriated by a rogue officer
  • Advising a disability charity updating its conflict of interest policy
  • Mediation of a governance dispute between a charity board and a member regarding procedural fairness under its constitution
  • Advising in relation to a dispute over governance procedures under the constitution and regulatory obligations of a children's welfare charity by a member

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  • October 2023
    Opportunities for Law Graduates/Solicitors
  • August 2023
    Related party transactions
  • July 2023
    Congratulations to our new Partner, Senior Associate, and two new Associates.
  • April 2023
    Congratulations to our new Partner, Sam Burnett
  • October 2022
    2022 Budget: Good news for charities

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  • Opportunities for Law Graduates/Solicitors October 2023
  • Related party transactions August 2023
  • Congratulations to our new Partner, Senior Associate, and two new Associates. July 2023

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Sydney Office

Level 4, 107 Mount Street
North Sydney  NSW   2060
Australia

+61 2 9466 5222

info@prolegis.com.au

Melbourne Office

Level 12

500 Collins Street
Melbourne  VIC  3000
Australia

+61 3 8672 2920

info@prolegis.com.au

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