The Lacrosse Building is a 23 storey mixed-use building located in Docklands, Melbourne. In November 2014, the building was engulfed in flames and 450-500 residents had to be evacuated. The...
The Brief is your monthly financial services update. To help you save time, each month we'll give you a quick run-down of what happened in financial services from experts across...
In a case concerning destruction of organic material by fire, insurers successfully defended proceedings for alleged wrongful declinature based on Perils Exclusion 6(c)(i) and/or 6(c)(ii) of an ISR Mark IV...
The NSW Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) has been successful in applying to the Civil and Administrative Tribunal (Tribunal) to find a psychologist guilty of unsatisfactory professional conduct in relation...
This is the third episode in our Construction & Engineering video series on the flammable cladding crisis. In part three, Rohan Bennett — one of our construction disputes and insurance...
This week on Wednesday 12 September 2018, the High Court of Australia, by a majority judgment (3:2 Kiefel CJ, Edelman and Gaegler JJ concurring), handed down their decision in Mighty...
Parties that withhold from serving a Statement of Claim and then seek an extension of time to do so, without a 'good reason' for an extension being granted, run the...
This is the second episode in our Construction & Engineering video series on the flammable cladding crisis. In part two, Natasha Stojanovich — one of our construction disputes and insurance...
As part of its 2018-19 Budget, the Federal Government proposes to battle illegal phoenix activity through reforms to the corporations and tax laws. Part of the Government's proposals may also...
The first step to building a “speak up” culture in the workplace is to make sure everyone is aligned with your organisation’s vision, say legal experts.
Does your organisation have a workplace culture of complicity? The Royal Commission shows the importance of implementing a “speak up” culture in the workplace
In Brighton Australia Pty Ltd v Multiplex Constructions Pty Ltd [2018] VSC 246 the Court held that a temporal limitation clause pleaded in defence to a claim for misleading and...