The North West Rail Link project has resulted in a large number of compulsory acquisitions raising a number of interesting principles and competing interests under the Land Acquisition (Just Terms) Compensation Act 1991 (NSW) (Just Terms Act
The Fair Entitlements Guarantee Act 2012 (Cth) requires the Commonwealth Government to pay outstanding superannuation, annual leave, redundancy and wages entitlements for eligible employees who have lost their jobs due to the liquidation or ...
The recent decision of Campbell AJA in Penson v Titan National Pty Limited (No. 3) [2015] NSWCA 121 (Penson) handed down on 26 June 2015 is a timely reminder of the entitlement of a party to seek a gross sum costs order as an alternative to ...
The Bankruptcy Act 1966 (Cth) (the Act) provides a regime by which a debtor can compromise with his/her creditors outside formal bankruptcy. The provisions are found in Part X (Personal Insolvency Agreements) and Part IX (De...
It is not uncommon for a Will to be put forward as being a person's last record of their testamentary intentions only for it to be challenged by an aggrieved beneficiary (or someone who, in their opinion, should have been a beneficiary). These dispu...
On 17 June 2015, the High Court of Australia gave judgment unanimously overturning a decision of the New South Wales Court of Appeal. The High Court held that a lease granted in contravention of s 92(1)(d) of the Liquor Act 2007 (NSW) was
McCabes acted for the defendants in Caves Beachside Cuisine Pty Ltd v Boydah Pty Ltd & 3 Others, an interesting matter which was recently heard before his Honour Justice Kunc in the Supreme Court of New South Wales (Commercial List). The...
The legal feud involving Australia's richest person, Gina Rinehart and her children has come to an end, at least for now. Yesterday Justice Brereton of the Supreme Court of NSW delivered his long anticipated judgment in Hancock v Rinehart [2015] NSWS...
The longest-serving current High Court judge, Hayne J once observed, "1322 applications and predecessors were common and garden in every corporation's list around this country", yet there are only a very few reported cases on section 1322 of...