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If you are a company director, company secretary, chief financial officer or a licensee or representative in the credit or financial services industry, you need to know what might transpire if the Australian Securities a ...

By: Luke Preston & Lucinda Coman The recent Supreme Court of Queensland decision in Lean Field Developments Pty Ltd v E & I Global Solutions (Aust) Pty Ltd & Anor1 serves as a timely reminder to contracting parties tha ...

By: Tony Stumm A number of documents are required to be executed as a deed, rather than as an agreement. Typically, where there is no visible consideration passing from one party to the other, a deed is required to mak ...

By: Christian Breen The Germanwings tragedy has prompted questions of what safeguards exist to manage potentially unstable pilots. Confirmation by officials that the co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 92525 intentionally ...

By: Tony Stumm When was the last time Australia’s two major political parties stood united behind an area of reform with unmitigated and unconditional support?  An answer to that question might prove illusive – bi ...

By: Rebecca Stevens The ACT Court of Appeal has upheld the trial judge’s decision in the matter of Ackland v Stewart, which was discussed in the April 2014 newsletter ‘Two courts jump in to consider obvious risk’ ...