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Insights from legal professionals and company regulators suggest that company directors should consider and respond to the risks posed by climate change as part of their duty to act with care, skill and diligence. The recent proceedings com...

In Part 1 of this two-part series, we looked at how you can be personally liable as a director for your company’s breach of taxation laws, company laws, and workplace laws. We also considered the ways in which directors may be held accessorily liable...

The interlocutory decision referred to below is an important reminder to all practitioners that when an expert witness claims to require access to certain documents to complete his or her report this should not necessarily be taken as gospel, and the...

The obligation to act with “good faith and reasonableness” is a relatively modern, and continually evolving, area of contract law. This principle recently received some further consideration from the Federal Court of Australia in a legal battle conce...

Navigating the array of laws that impact on every facet of your company’s business can be a minefield. This two part series has a focus on some of the statutes that can impact upon you and your company, and ways to limit your personal exposure to lia...

An underappreciated fact when it comes to estate planning is that the monies held in a superannuation fund do not automatically form part of a person’s estate. Whilst in practice this can be an academic point for many executors managing an estate, if...

A recent decision of the Federal Circuit Court of Australia has demonstrated that the increased protections introduced by the vulnerable worker amendments to the Fair Work Act are being applied with real consequences for employers who underpay their ...

1. Section 90K(1)(aa) of the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) provides that a court may set aside a financial agreement if the court is satisfied that a party to the agreement entered into the agreement for purposes including the purpose o...