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Indemnity clauses in commercial contracts: how to achieve desired contractual risk allocation

  • Piper Alderman
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  • Australia
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  • June 7 2011

An indemnity clause is a contractual transfer of risk between two contractual parties generally to prevent loss or compensate for a loss which may occur as a result of a specified event

Foreign qualified legal practitioners can breathe a sigh of relief

  • Piper Alderman
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  • Australia
  • -
  • June 7 2013

A recent decision of the Queensland Supreme Court is of significance to Australian inhouse legal practitioners, admitted to practice in a

When will the court terminate a DOCA?

  • Corrs Chambers Westgarth
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  • Australia
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  • June 14 2013

In the recent decision of Commonwealth Bank of Australia v C2C Developments Pty Ltd 2013 NSWSC 724 the New South Wales Supreme Court considers some

Good faith: what role does it play when exercising an express right to terminate a contract?

  • Clayton Utz
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  • Australia
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  • May 6 2013

When parties are negotiating contracts, usually one of the key outcomes they are hoping to achieve is certainty. Certainty as to their obligations

Fashion faux pas: Kym Ellery’s lesson in exclusive supply agreements with Myer

  • Piper Alderman
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  • Australia
  • -
  • June 7 2013

The litigation over an exclusivity agreement between department store Myer and fashion designer Kym Ellery (Ellery) is now over, with a confidential

ACCC landmark decision: disqualification under the ACL

  • Piper Alderman
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  • Australia
  • -
  • June 7 2013

The ACCC dedicated much of its resources in 2012 to upholding the objectives of making markets work for consumers, and strong enforcement action

Exclusive remedy clauses: are you left without a remedy?

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Australia
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  • March 21 2013

As the name suggests, an exclusive remedy clause exhaustively spells out the remedies available to a party for a particular event. All other remedies

Abolition of duty on the purchase of a business

  • Rockwell Olivier
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  • Australia
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  • May 15 2013

Under the Duties Act 2008 (WA), duty is generally payable by a purchaser of Western Australian business assets to the State Government. Duty is

Safety in the boardroom

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • Australia
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  • June 3 2013

In this presentation Cormack Dunn, Special Counsel, discusses how company officers are coming to terms with the new work health and safety laws and

Federal Treasury clarifies boundaries between small amount credit contracts and medium amount credit contracts

  • Hunt & Hunt
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  • Australia
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  • June 11 2013

Late yesterday evening Federal Treasury issued an urgent email to interested stakeholders giving clarification as to the boundary, in monetary