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NSW Budget 2015-16
A significant suite of infrastructure projects across transport public housing health and prisons as well as new bodies to facilitate their delivery have been announced in the NSW Budget Partner Leighton OBrien and Associate Dennis Smith report ...
Navigating split dispute resolution clauses – where's Google Maps when you need it?
A recent Supreme Court of Victoria decision sounds a warning to principals and contractors alike – your dispute resolution clause must be clear and unambiguous, because the court will not go out of its way to cure a commercially peculiar, but perfectly workable, clause. ...
Allens advises beverage consortium on NSW container deposit scheme
Allens has advised Exchange for Change , a consortium of five leading beverage companies, on its successful bid for the role of scheme coordinator in the New South Wales Government's container ...
Compliance with multi-tiered dispute resolution clauses
The Queensland Supreme Court has stayed proceedings on the basis that the parties did not follow the agreed contractual provisions for the proper escalation of a dispute Partner Leighton OBrien Senior Associate Julian Berenholtz and Law Graduate Flora Ma report on the decision that emphasises the ...
Trend Watch: beta testing – a new software procurement strategy?
Software company Palantir Technologies was recently announced as the US Army's choice to deploy a complex combat intelligence system valued at US$800 million. ...
ACCC calls for significant reforms in Digital Platforms Inquiry Final Report (Part II): A platform for sweeping privacy reform
The ACCC has called for significant reforms in Digital platforms to strengthen privacy protections for individuals and to improve transparency and accountability In data handling practices for both digital platforms and other organisations regulated by the Privacy Act 1998. ...
New guidelines for unsolicited proposals for State-owned land in WA
The WA Government has issued its formal guidelines for unsolicited proposals for the sale or lease of State-owned land By embracing the possibility of unsolicited proposals as opposed to encumbering every development opportunity with a procurement process and by expressing a willingness to engage ...
WA Electricity Market Review - Government says 'yes' to Contestability, but 'no' to privatisation
The WA State Government has rejected recommendations for significant and transformational structural changes to the states electricity market in response to the recently released Electricity Market Review Options Paper ...
Allens advises Nido Petroleum on acquisition of Galoc Production Company WLL
Allens is advising Nido Petroleum Limited on its acquisition of Galoc Production Company WLL ( GPC ) from Otto Energy Limited. GPC is the holder of Otto's 33 per cent working interest in the Galoc ...
High Court decision on retention obligations provides some clarity to liquidators
The High Court has ruled that a liquidator has no obligation to retain monies on account of tax until a notice of assessment has been issued The decision will provide much needed clarity for liquidators and other statutorily deemed trustees and agents Partners Charles Armitage and Christopher ...