Level 11, 575 Bourke Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000
Phone: 61 3 8621 2888 Email: client.services@mckeanpark.com.au
Future Law Team
OUR CRYSTAL BALL
The world of business is constantly evolving and in many cases social change occurs in advance of the law’s ability to respond. The objective of the McKean Park Future Law Team is to monitor these social and cultural changes to identify potential new areas of law and evaluate their commercial implications on our client's businesses. With this future perspective, we are better able to provide practical solutions for our clients. Our involvement in the future also presents opportunities to change or help create new laws to benefit the broader community and our clientele.
Keeping ahead requires a multi-disciplined approach to be taken and maintaining close connections with academic, political, market and research sources. This allows us to ascertain and evaluate what our clients should expect in a wide range of areas.
If your business or the land/services you manage/own needs a consideration of what the law is likely to require or provide in the future we can help you.
Some of the special areas of future law you may be interested in discussing with us are:
- The effect of Greenhouse Gas reduction on business, government and government agencies
- Greenhouse Emission Trading- Carbon Credits
- Environmental Property - assets of the future
- Business Risk Management and emerging opportunities
- Business Succession and Estate Planning in the Greenhouse Era
- Sustainability plans opportunities and problems
- Waste - a growth asset
- Local Government - avoiding future problems
- Crown Land - assets worth considering
- Energy and Resources - planning for the future
Contacts:
- Mark Flynn (Partner)
- Ross Blair (Special Counsel)
Publications:
- 26-Mar-2008 : A Carbon Market in Australia
- 24-Oct-2007 : A Carbon Market in Australia
- 24-Oct-2007 : Embodied Energy in Carbon Market
- 3-May-2007 : Droughts
- 5-Mar-2007 : Hydrogen - Energy of the Future
- 19-Jan-2007 : Getting Smart About Greenhouse
- 19-Jan-2007 : The Scourge of Global Warming
- 5-Nov-2006 : Renegotiating the Kyoto Treaty
- 1-Nov-2006 : Global Warning (Things you need to know about Global Warming)
- 15-Sep-2006 : (An Inconvenient) Truth Must Out
- 12-Sep-2006 : Birth of Global Warming
- 12-Sep-2006 : Drought or Permanent Condition?
- 14-Jul-2006 : The Greenhouse Chain Reaction
- 9-Jun-2006 : Nukes In Our Future
- 11-Apr-2006 : The Australian Greenhouse Story - 1. The Background
- 11-Apr-2006 : The Australian Greenhouse Story - 2. What Went Wrong
- 11-Apr-2006 : The Australian Greenhouse Story - 3. What Happened Next
- 11-Apr-2006 : The Australian Greenhouse Story - 4. Problems
- 11-Apr-2006 : The Australian Greenhouse Story - 5. More Problems
- 11-Apr-2006 : The Australian Greenhouse Story - 6. But There's More
- 11-Apr-2006 : The Australian Greenhouse Story - 7. Some Conclusions
- 28-Nov-2005 : Remembering Lake Nyos
- 25-Oct-2005 : A Technological Answer To Global Climate Change
- 25-Oct-2005 : Climate Change – Issuing the Writs
- 25-Oct-2005 : The Warnings of Hurricane Katrina
