Business Law and Corporate Law

Recent case provides important guidance for liquidators in scrutinising potentially unreasonable director-related transactions.

Regularly review and understand the terms of your supplier contracts to effectively address and anticipate potential issues.

In May 2024, the Australian government announced reforms to both streamline and strengthen Australia's foreign investment framework.

Listing rule waiver on which James Hardie will rely to acquire Azek without getting shareholder approval.

Bendel is an intriguing case that will have further developments.

Case provides useful roadmap to statutory interpretation, particularly in the context of tax legislation.

The new service replaces the previous State and Territory systems and is administered and managed by ASIC.

Analysis of the business structure should be done regularly, or whenever the business undergoes a significant event.

Ensuring the correct structure is chosen at the start is the best way to avoid costs if the structure is changed.

In November 2009, the Federal Court of Australia (in Hine v New South Wales Land and Housing Corporation [2009] FCA 1242) considered whether or not a legal remedy was available for perceived injustices arising from a direction given by the Department of Housing (DOH) to its contractors, in circumstances where losses claimed were pure economic losses arising from dealings in a wholly commercial context.

On 21 April 2010 the High Court handed down its unanimous decision that damages are not available for the ‘loss of chance’ of a better medical outcome where the defendant’s negligence was merely a possible but less than a probable cause of the plaintiff’s damage.

In this case, the NSW Court of Appeal confirmed that the prima facie measure of damages where there are defects caused by a breach of a contractual obligation is the cost of rectification, provided the works to be carried out are both necessary under the contract and reasonable, affirming the principle espoused in Bellgrove v Eldridge.