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In so far as they relates to creditor's statutory demands, the provisions of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) are construed by the courts particularly prescriptively. On 5 June 2015, His Honour Justice Brereton de...
The recent Court of Appeal decision in Burke v Burke provides further commentary and clarification in relation to how estrangement will affect the Court's determination of family provision proceedings brought by adult children of deceased pe...
Author: Melissa Tan Judgement Date: 25th August, 2015 Citation: White v Forster [2015] NSWCA 245 Jurisdiction: Supreme Court of New South Wales Court of Appeal [1] In brief The Supreme Court of New South Wales Court of Appeal upheld the decision of t...
Author: Melissa Tan Judgement Date: 25th August, 2015 Citation: White v Forster [2015] NSWCA 245 Jurisdiction: Supreme Court of New South Wales Court of Appeal [1] In brief The Supreme Court of New South Wales Court of Appeal upheld the decision of t...
In the case of Perilya Limited v Nash [2015] NSWSC 706, Perilya Limited (Perilya), the holding company of Perilya Broken Hill Limited (PBHL) was ordered to pay $40,000 for two offences of not comply...
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
"B" v Reineker [2015] NSW SC 949 Background The plaintiff commenced proceedings seeking damages for trespass against the defendant and for negligence against Moree Christian Community School relating to events that occurred in the period fro...
Transpacific, a company that provides recycling, waste management and industrial services, was ordered by the Federal Court of Australia to pay $363,000 to its insurer Comcare as Transpacific admitted contraventions of ss 16 and 17 of the Occupat...
The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) commenced proceedings against Coles due to underpayment of its trolley collectors. Coles outsourced these services to contractors who were underpaying the employees. Coles has now entered into an Enforce...