Time to act on Australia's social infrastructure deficit: four steps to address the increasing shortfall ...

During the agricultural round of hearings, and in his Interim Report, the Commissioner asked if there should be special rules for farmers to address the particular challenges of the sector, and if so, who should bear the added cost? ...

Legal and compliance leaders should act now to combat serious and increasing legal and reputational risk ...

Perhaps the biggest issue dealt with in the superannuation hearings is how various forms of conflicts create perverse incentives for trustees to not comply with their duties. ...

In this case, the NSW Court of Appeal considered the date of the assessment of damages and whether the loss the respondents suffered was too remote. ...

In JPA Finance Pty Ltd v Gordon Nominees Pty Ltd [2019], the VSCA l considered whether the termination notice requirements in an option deed required strict, as opposed to substantive, compliance. ...

In this case, the Full Court of the Supreme Court of South Australia considered the scope and nature of a change of control clause providing that a party's prior written consent 'will not be unreasonably withheld'. ...

Court of Appeal of Western Australia considered the extension of an insurance policy to a building-project subcontractor who was neither a party to the insurance contract nor mentioned by name in the policy. ...

In this case, the New South Wales Court of Appeal considered when a contract is validly terminated if the termination clause provides for termination if a remediable breach is not remedied within a set timeframe. ...

Contracts often contain detailed provisions prescribing how parties must perform their obligations or exercise their rights under it. Frequently, such provisions are not strictly complied with. There will often then be a dispute about the consequences of that non-compliance. ...