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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 McCabes Government team are pleased to have assisted Venues NSW in successfully overturning a District Court decision holding it liable in negligence for injuries sustained by a patron who slipped and fell down a set of steps at a sports stadium;...
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)....
The recent decision in Metal Manufactures Pty Limited v Morton [2023] HCA 1 has confirmed that set-off cannot be used as a defence to a liquidator’s unfair preference claim under s. 553C of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (the "Corp...
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.
It is well established that the liquidator of a company may apply to the courts to set aside and recover payments made to creditors of that company to increase the estate's general pool of assets available to all creditors under S. 588FE of the C...
From 1 July 2023, a number of employment related thresholds increased for the 2023/2024 financial year.
In June 2016, Google LLC (Google) introduced a notification system where consumers were instructed that Google had added some "optional features". If consumers clicked "I agree", Google would be allowed to combine their personal information obtained ...