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Recently, Australia's key competition and consumer regulator, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (the ACCC), granted interim authorisation to tenant retailers to collectively bargain with landlords for rent relief ami...
On 25 April 2020, the Minister for Health issued a determination under the Biosecurity Act to allow for the launch of the Federal Government’s COVIDSafe app (the Determination), to enable State and Territory health authorities to conduct “...
Directors and secretaries can now validly execute documents on behalf of their companies by signing those documents using an electronic signature. For documents that require the signatures of two company officers, those documents can now also be sign...
The NSW State Government has recently passed new regulations affecting residential tenancies. The Residential Tenancies Amendment (COVID-19) Regulation 2020 imposes restrictions on landlords' rights to evict tenants who are unable to pay ren...
An ongoing area of debate in contract law has been the examination of what the "true rule" is arising out of the High Court's decision in Codelfa Construction Pty Ltd v State Rail Authority of New South Wales (1982) 149 CLR 337. That is, whe...
On 24 April 2020 the High Court handed down a decision addressing whether a claim for “disappointment and distress” arising from a breach of statutory guarantees in supplying services is a claim for personal injury damages. The decision a...
As reported in our earlier article, the NSW Government recently made new regulations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to make it easier for documents to be witnessed and attested. As discussed in that article, the witnessing and attestation of do...
On 24 April 2020 the NSW Government passed the Retail and Other Commercial Leases (COVID-19) Regulation 2020 which gave effect to the Commercial Tenancies Mandatory Code of Conduct that was released in early April. Eligib...
In conjunction with the recently enacted Retail and Other Commercial Leases (COVID-19) Regulation 2020 (the Regulations), the NSW State Government has now implemented their $440 million land tax relief package to assist comm...