Member Articles

Contract Works and Contractor’s All Risk Policies comprise a critical component of risk allocation under modern construction contracts. Recovery under these policies can provide fertile ground for dispute, particularly ...

The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently announced1 it has proposed a US$1.9 million dollar civil penalty against a US company2 for unauthorised unmanned aerial system (UAS) operations across ...

In a long-awaited reprieve for businesses whose commercial activities involve the regular leasing or hiring of motor vehicles and other serial numbered goods, the commencement of the Personal Property Securities Amendmen ...

In June 2015, whilst the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) was before the Senate Estimates Committee, the ASIC Chairman, Greg Medcraft, raised the idea of making companies liable under new civil pen ...

An order for security for costs is never made lightly by the courts, notwithstanding that they have a broad discretion to do so. That discretion extends to an application to vary a security for costs order already in pla ...

Important amendments to the Environmental Protection Act 1994 (Qld) (EP Act), made by the Environmental Protection and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2014 (Qld) (EPTLA Act) as part of the Newman Government’s ‘Greent ...