Project

Developing a rational law of misleading conduct

Providing the legal tools to reform the heartland of commercial misconduct

Laws that prohibit, regulate and remedy misleading conduct are critical to maintaining a fair and efficient market economy. But the current mix of common law, equitable and statutory rules are complicated, confused, conflicting and costly. This project proposes a novel, integrated analysis, which draws insights from across the spectrum of private and commercial law, to support the development of a rational law of misleading conduct.

Its key outcomes include developing a map of the existing law, which can be used to support effective and coherent judicial and legislative law reform in Australia and overseas. The project aims should yield significant legal, economic and social benefits by promoting more just, effective and efficient regulation of misleading conduct.

Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP180100932

Our goals

  • Clarify the holistic operation of the currently disparate sets of rules on misleading conduct, through the development of a rigorous taxonomy of the current law
  • Promote a more integrated and coherent interpretation of the rules regulating misleading conduct across the field of regulated transactions, through the development of an original and coherent theoretical model of misleading conduct
  • Inform targeted law reform within the Australian regulatory system, through the development of a detailed roadmap that will identify, explain and justify the general law and legislative changes necessary to realise the theoretical model of misleading conduct
  • Provide insight and guidance relevant to other common law countries also grappling with problems of misleading conduct, through the project’s research and outcomes.

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Collaboration

This project is funded by the Australian Research Council Discovery program, Project DP180100932

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