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External administrators are required to be independent, impartial and avoid personal conflicts of interests when carrying out their role and dealing with company assets. This is the reason for why they need to lodge a declaration of independence, rel...
Offers of compromise are an important tool in litigation. Aside from ensuring some form of success, or avoiding total defeat, one of the primary purposes of a party making an offer of compromise is to avoid incurring further legal costs. Where settle...
The recent decision of Markovic J in Robert Kite and Mark Hutchins in their capacity as liquidators of Mooney’s Contractors Pty Ltd (in liq) & Anor...
In 2017, an estimated 2.5 billion people will use social media, uploading roughly 300 million photos per day to Facebook alone. The volume of user generated content posted to social media is unprecedented, with many unaware of the legal implications ...
Your tattoos are unique, deeply personal, and a true reflection of your freedom, so you can do whatever you like with your tattoo - right?! Wrong. A spate of recent US cases suggests that, far from liberating you, tattoos might restrict your freedom...
The purpose of the Bill On 1 December 2016, the Queensland Parliament passed the Heavy Vehicle National Law and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2016 which will be to be incorporated within the uniform national law...
In a landmark decision of the Federal Court last week, popular torrent file-sharing websites such as The Pirate Bay, Torrentz, TorrentHound and IsoHunt (the Websites) will now be blocked in Australia. Following the decision in R...
Excerpt: Part 5.3A of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (the Act), titled ‘Administration of a company’s affairs with a view to executing a deed of company arrangement’, codifies an extensive regime of rules and protocols which govern...
Background Insolvency Practitioners (IPs) commonly adopt time-based costing for the calculation of their remuneration, primarily on the basis that it ensures that the IP is only remunerated for the work actu...