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Compliance with Subpoenas: Clarifying ‘Conduct Money’ and Compensation

16/11/2017 The widely used term ‘conduct money’ is regularly misapplied in situations where a party complying with a Subpoena to Produce to the Court (Subpoena…

Australian Privacy Regulator Takes Facebook to Court

07/10/2020 Facebook is being sued by the Australian Information Commissioner for a breach of the Privacy Act (1998) (Cth) (Privacy Act). The claim follows from…

Adverse Possession: The Legalised Stealing of Land is in the Public Interest

23/09/2020 The English law has long recognised the unauthorised taking of someone else’s land by adverse possession. What would be considered as ‘stealing’ is…

Uberrimae Fidei: of the utmost good faith

07/08/2015 This seemingly simple Latin expression is both subjective and objective. It evokes notions of honesty, conscience, trust, fairness, cooperation and…

Lawyers Gone Wild: Acting without Authority

18/04/2017 On 21 February 2017, in Victorian Legal Services commissioner v Logan (Legal Practice), the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal delivered a…

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