Knowledge Publications
04/08/2023
High Court's decision on corporate criminal offending
What is the “value of the benefit” of corporate criminal offending? Should it be the gr...
Expertise Area
23/03/2023
“The time has come to apply the overarching purpose … of the Federal Court Act with some vigour to schemes, to ensure that they are conducted cheapl...
Expertise Area
05/04/2022
A recent decision of the Federal Court of Australia provides a timely reminder, in the context of reports prepared by third-party experts, of the impo...
Expertise Area
01/12/2021
The recent decision of Justice O’Bryan in Australian Securities and Investments Commission v La Trobe Financial Asset Management Ltd [2021] FCA 1417 s...
Expertise Area
09/09/2021
Sweeping changes in modern communication do not warrant relaxing the strictness of the common law regarding the publication of defamatory material. So...
Expertise Area
12/03/2021
In another significant class action decision from the High Court (Wigmans v AMP Limited [2021] HCA 7), a 3:2 majority of the Court has affirmed the ‘c...
Expertise Area
04/11/2020
In two recent decisions, the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia and the Court of Appeal of New South Wales have refused to decide whether ...
Expertise Area
03/06/2020
The NSW Court of Appeal has upheld the decision of Rothman J in June 2019 that media companies are publishers of comments made by the public on their ...
Expertise Area
24/04/2020
The NSW Court of Appeal has held class closure orders which extinguish the rights of unregistered class members before settlement approval or final ...
Expertise Area
04/12/2019
In the most significant class action decision from the High Court in over a decade, a majority of the High Court has today held that the Federal Court...
Expertise Area
24/10/2019
The Federal Court decision by Justice Beach in the Myer Holdings Ltd securities class action confirmed that shareholders affected by continuous d...
Expertise Area