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Reasonable belief or a mere suspicion? Full Court lowers the bar on preliminary discovery applications
The Full Federal Court has handed down a significant decision on preliminary discovery in a result that will be welcomed by IP owners, as the court has clarified the requirements for a successful preliminary discovery application while emphasising the need for such applications to be met with brevit ...
Court finds PZ Cussons spotless in alleged laundry detergent cartel
Allens acted for PZ Cussons in successfully defending the first contested hub and spoke cartel case brought by the ACCC ...
Resource Capital Fund IV LP: what's all the fuss about? Foreign partnerships and liability to Australian tax
The Federal Court has concluded that the profit made on disposal of shares in an Australian mining company by a private equity fund formed as a Cayman Islands Limited Partnership was not subject to Australian tax ...
Statutory priority of secured creditors and trustee insolvency: implications of Re Amerind appeal decision
Implications of Re Amerind appeal decision has been widely welcomed by insolvency practitioners and others, as it brought some clarity to the question of whether the statutory order of priority applies to trust creditors. ...
Trustee insolvency - the Full Federal Court weighs in to the debate
The Full Federal court released its decision in Jones (Liquidator) v Matrix Partners Pty Ltd that trust assets should be applied first in paying employees and other statutory preferred creditors. ...
Personal advice and the best interests duty
There has been a great deal of attention given to the meanings of financial product advice and personal advice in the Corporations Act and many of us are eagerly waiting to see what Justice Gleeson will say about the topic in the case ASIC has brought against the BT trustees. ...
Vietnam issues a stringent new cybersecurity law
A new law in Vietnam enabling state control of cyber data will have wide-ranging implications for business costs and compliance The powers it gives to the Government are extensive and its coverage is unprecedented Partner Linh Bui and Associates Hien Nguyen and Khanh Nguyen report on the key issues ...
Clarity on what constitutes a misleading consumer guarantee representation
A recent Full Federal Court decision has provided welcome clarity on what constitutes a misleading consumer guarantee representation. ...
Rethinking ‘natural’ history
Is there more than one reason to call a product ‘natural’? The FCAFC thinks so, overturning Justice Katzmann’s finding that it is misleading to describe a product as ‘natural’ if it is not made wholly or substantially from natural ingredients. ...
US court holds foreign corporations not liable for human rights harms under Alien Tort Statute
In a decision on human rights litigation that has important consequences for business a divided US Supreme Court has held that foreign corporations will not be held liable in suits brought under the Alien Tort Statute Partner Rachel Nicolson Associate Shamistha Selvaratnam and Graduate Calypso ...