Litigation Law, Mediation Law and Arbitration Law

Patients should be careful about what they say about their health care providers, as a US singer recently learned.

Discusses recent Queensland ltitgation which considered limitation periods.

The Court of Appeal upheld the award in favour of the plaintiff on the basis that both doctors breached duty of care.

International Arbitration Comparative Guide for the jurisdiction of Indonesia, check out our comparative guides section to compare across multiple countries

Commonwealth's status as a "body politic" will not preclude it from recovering damages on a patent owner's undertaking.

International Arbitration Comparative Guide for the jurisdiction of Japan, check out our comparative guides section to compare across multiple countries

High Court held that fees on a government-owned corporation were not a tax but an "internal financial arrangement".

In the landmark case of Democratic Republic of the Congo & Ors v FG Hemisphere Associates LLC [2011] HKEC 747 the Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong (the Court) for the first time in its history sought clarification of provisions of Hong Kong’s Basic Law from the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (the SCNPC) on behalf of the Chinese Government.

Some of the provisions of the federal Australian Information Commissioner Act 2010 and the federal Freedom of Information (Reform) Act 2010 ("Information Acts"), passed earlier this year, are about to come into effect. This article summarises some of the main changes.

As an international financial centre, Hong Kong has one of the most transient and mobile workforces and one of the highest concentrations of information technology (IT) use in the workplace.

By asserting rights which Motorola and Nokia Siemens Networks undoubtedly consider legitimate, and relevant to the protection of their interests in the wireless infrastructure market, Huawei has taken a meaningful step towards the successful resolution of its differences with Motorola over the sale of its wireless network assets to one of Huawei's competitors.

The Advisory Council on Intellectual Property has released its Report into Patentable Subject Matter, and its recommendations, while not radical, would go some way to clarifying the law of patents in Australia if adopted. Of particular interest is the new exclusion from patentability that it proposes, which could have significant effects on the patentability of biological materials.