Julia Gillard, the Australian Prime Minister, gets knocked out, but she gets back up again. Her government suffered a serious blow when the Australian High Court blocked the asylum seeker deal with Malaysia that was at the forefront of her immigration policy. If you are wondering at what point she got back up again, it was today when she announced that she had spoken to her Labor Party caucus to revise the Migration Act so it could be accepted by the High Court.

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The Australian government suffered a blow to its immigration policy when the Australian High Court rejected the deal struck up with the Malaysian government to combat migrants travelling to Australia by boat.

The deal, which caused much controversy with human rights groups, was signed last month and aimed to send 800 migrants back to Malaysia for the UN to deal with the processing of refugee claim. In return, the Australian government would accept 4,000 refugees from Malaysia over a space of 4 years, with the condition of the refugees having UN certification.

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Hiring a director or executive is an important decision but it is imperative to consider the legal rules and obligations before appointing directors to a company. It is the law for every private limited company to have at least one company director. At least one of these directors has to be an actual person rather than another company. Before appointing a director there are certain things that need to be checked.

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Ashbourne Services Management, a company in charge of 700 gym clubs, has been legally reprimanded for breaching UK consumer protection and contract law. This came as a result of the firm carrying out illegal methods to collect payment from customers, such as collecting the money themselves using dubious methods, wrongfully reporting the customers to credit reference agencies and making it impossible for customers trying to cancel their gym memberships. Consequently, many customers complained to the Office of Fair Trading and a case was launched against the company soon thereafter.

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