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This week's TGIF considers Rosenberg v Can’t Escape Karma Pty Ltd [No 2] [2026] WASCA 50. In this case, the Western Australian Court of Appeal (the Court) unanimously refused an appeal of a decision to dismiss an application to discharge examination summonses on the basis that they constituted an abuse of process and were obtained in contravention of the duty to make ‘full and frank disclosure’.

This week’s TGIF considers the Full Federal Court decision in Yang v Wong [2026] FCAFC 39 where a payment by a company to a related entity, to repay money owing to the mother of one director, was found not to be an unreasonable director-related transaction pursuant to section 588FDA of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).

One in five Australians have been affected by revenge porn or image-based abuse – when intimate images are posted online.

Mere dissatisfaction by the prosecution with the sentence passed is not enough to warrant an appeal.

This case highlights that employers, although an easy target due to a non-delegable duty of care, are not always liable.

New South Wales employers should continue to have regard to the possible application of the injured workers' provisions and, in particular, when assessing whether and when it can terminate the employment of employees who are no longer fit for employment.

Bullying has been estimated to cost Australian industry in excess of $3 billion per year and, for its victims, can have significant psychological and emotional costs.

The Supreme Court of Victoria decided that the plaintiff’s attempt to contest the construction of deeds, after allowing an appeal to the Supreme Court of Victoria Court of Appeal and the High Court of Australia, on alternative grounds for appeal, has amounted to an abuse of process.

This decision is interesting in its consideration of 'expert peer opinion' within s5O of the Civil Liability Act 2002.

The Supreme Court of New South Wales has helpfully given guidance to the liquidators of the RCR Tomlinson Group on a number of unsettled questions

Peter Oreb and Ingrid Webber were directors of a group of companies supplying workforce solutions to some of the largest corporations in the world.

Recent FC decision granted leave to shareholders of a company in liquidation to proceed directly against the company's insurers.

Interpreting insurance contracts is often contentious as coverage and exclusion clauses contain varying degrees of ambiguity.

On 3 August 2006 Bergin J of the NSW Supreme Court held that an indemnity provided to a director in a Deed of Indemnity, Insurance and Access extended to payment of the director’s costs of bringing defamation proceedings to protect his reputation. The reasoning was that defamation proceedings are the process by which a defamatory allegation is defended.

The Supreme Court of the United States gave its decision on 15 May 2006 in the controversial patent case between eBay and MercExchange. eBay argued that despite a finding that it had infringed MercExchange’s patent, no injunction should be awarded.

The use of the medicament as it emerges as a product of the manufacturing process for this therapeutic indication, and this indication alone, defines the monopoly of a Swiss-style claim.

There have been recent changes at both federal and state level which have increased the protection of a patient’s privacy through provisions dealing with the collection, storage and control of information.