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A development from the English Court of Appeal regarding legal professional privilege in internal investigations
Insight 02 Oct 2018

In a recent judgment the English Court of Appeal reversed a controversial High Court decision that had severely limited the application of legal professional privilege in internal investigations under English law The decision has consequences for Australian corporates conducting cross-border ...

Contract Law Update 2018
Insight 26 Mar 2019

This Insight examines the latest developments in contract law ...

Latest word on competing class actions
Insight 24 May 2019

The NSWSC has selected one of five ongoing class actions against AMP Limited to proceed, making a clear statement that multiple class actions raising similar issues should not be permitted without good reason ...

Class actions and emerging issues
Insight 30 Jul 2019

The nature of Australia's class action landscape has fundamentally changed since the outset of the regimes. ...

Navigating split dispute resolution clauses – where's Google Maps when you need it?
Insight 15 Jul 2019

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. ...

PNG accedes to the New York Convention – what will change?
Insight 07 Aug 2019

Papua New Guinea (PNG) recently acceded to the UN Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards, which is likely to increase its attractiveness to foreign investors. ...

High Court limits proportionate liability regime and expands insurers' liability for costs
Insight 14 May 2015

The High Court yesterday overturned a decision of the Full Court of the Federal Court and held that if the same loss is caused by both apportionable and non-apportionable claims proportionate liability does not apply to the non-apportionable claims The High Court also ordered that the defendants ...

Federal Court judgment in the Chevron transfer pricing case
Insight 10 Nov 2015

The Federal Courts much-anticipated judgment in emChevron Australia Holdings v Commissioner of Taxationem is the next important step in the development of Australias transfer pricing rules Partners Martin Fry and Toby Knight discuss certain implications of the decision ...

Double recovery as a challenge to the enforcement of an arbitral award
Insight 01 Mar 2016

The Victorian Court of Appeal has refused an application for leave to appeal against the enforcement of an arbitral award The applicants applied for leave to appeal on the basis that enforcement of the award would be contrary to public policy as it would give effect to double recovery by the ...

Court accepts market-based causation
Insight 21 Apr 2016

Perhaps the most important unanswered question in Australian class action law has been how causation may be established in a shareholder class action After more than a decade of uncertainty the Supreme Court of NSW has ruled that shareholders can prove causation by establishing that the price of the ...

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