Herbert Smith Freehills LLP | Australia | 13 Mar 2024
The virtues of earn-outs and contingent deferred payments are appealing in their ability to: bridge the value gap between acquirer and vendor; settle…
Cordato Partners | Australia | 11 Mar 2024
Family farms are often family partnerships. When the parents retire, often an 'on-farm' child wants to keep farming. If so, the transfer of the farm…
KHQ Lawyers | Australia | 11 Mar 2024
You’ve got to hand it to litigation funders. They continue to explore novel ways to ameliorate the significant cost of class action litigation. In…
Cordato Partners | Australia | 4 Mar 2024
The Supreme Court of NSW has decided if an interest rate of 70.72% per annum made a short-term loan secured by residential mortgage unjust. This is…
Hall & Wilcox | Australia | 29 Feb 2024
The NSW Supreme Court’s recent decision in Macari v Snack Brands Foods Pty Ltd [2024] NSWSC 139 highlights the responsibility of plaintiffs to prove…
Hall & Wilcox | Australia | 28 Feb 2024
In the recent decision, LTP v Natalwala [2023] WASC 414, the Supreme Court of Western Australia extended the limitation period for a personal injury…
Gilbert + Tobin | Australia | 26 Feb 2024
It is a basic rule of contract law that if you sign a contract you are bound by the terms of the contract whether you have read them or not: Toll…
Maddocks | Australia | 21 Feb 2024
The High Court's recent refusal to grant special leave in this class action, which arose from Volkswagen's inclusion of defective Takata airbags in…
KHQ Lawyers | Australia | 16 Feb 2024
Welcome to the latest issue of the KHQ Super Alert. This week the NSW Supreme Court released an interesting judgement relating to the interpretation…
Holding Redlich | Australia | 15 Feb 2024
While agencies are only required to adopt ‘reasonable’ safeguards to protect against unauthorised access, use and disclosure of personal and health…