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The original purpose of intellectual property laws is to protect the rights of authors and inventors by the grant of limited term statutory monopolies. Two main rationales underpin these monopolies: (a) the need to reward creators for the time and ef...
The Australian Consumer Law (ACL) is a national law that, amongst other things, includes protections for consumers and small businesses when buying goods and services in Australia. The ACL includes a regime in relation to 'unfair contract terms' (UCT...
The recent decision of McGuire bht McGuire v New South Wales Trustee and Guardian [2023] NSWSC 1013 provides helpful guidance on the eligibility of a de facto partner to receive a family provision order as well as the matters a Court considers when m...
In June 2023, a Canadian Court in South-West Terminal Ltd v Achter Land and Cattle Ltd, 2023 SKKB 116, held that the "thumbs-up" emoji carried enough weight to constitute acceptance of contractual terms, analogous to that of a "signature", to establi...
The recent decision in New Aim Pty Ltd v Leung [2023] FCAFC 67 (New Aim) has provided some useful guidance in relation to briefing experts in litigation.
On 12 July 2023, the Australian Commonwealth's Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services (Committee) released its landmark report on the state of corporate insolvency in Australia (Report)....
In two recent decisions, Federal Court of Australia and the New South Wales Court of Appeal clarified the law on admissibility of conversations in affidavits.
There are multiple tools available to resolve a dispute both before and after litigation has commenced. This commonly includes either or both of an informal settlement conference (which is generally a commercial approach to ending a dispute conduc...
This is the latest in a series of articles which has followed the run of appeals of the decision of Darke J in Dyco Hotels Pty Ltd v Laundy Hotels (Quarry) Pty Ltd [2021] NSWSC 504. Our first article, analysing the decision at first instance...
