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This case explores the continuing applicability of the doctrine of witness immunity, for experts and their employers.

The Design and Building Practitioners Act 2020 (NSW) (Act) imposes on persons who carry out construction work a duty to exercise reasonable care to avoid economic loss to owners and subsequent...

Australia's securities regulator has secured a landmark $2 million civil penalty against Hollard Insurance for breaching its duty of utmost good faith during a 17-month storm damage claim. The Federal Court found that repeated delays, inadequate expert assessment, and poor communication constituted a single contravention—even without deliberate misconduct. This precedent-setting decision signals that claims-handling failures on individual policies can now trigger seven-figure penalties, fundamentally

In Australia, class actions operate by way of an opt-out model that does not require the consent or identification of class members at the time the proceedings are commenced.

A recent High Court of Australia decision considers the unique circumstances in which a foreign State is entitled to relief from a foreign judgment made against it.

Given unique role of Medical Panel, parties should analyse whether they have sufficient grounds for appealing a determination.

The Timbercorp Group was in the business of operating horticultural and forestry managed investment schemes ("MISs").

Article discusses background to, reasons for and grounds of the challenge to the demolition of the Sydney Football Stadium.

Establishing occupier's liability involves careful consideration of the facts which have given rise to an injury.

The High Court of Australia determined that a non-delegable duty of care could be breached by the intentional criminal wrong doing of a third party.

In Felix v NULIS Nominees (Australia) Ltd [2020] FCA 596, Stewart J upheld a determination of the Superannuation Complaints Tribunal (Tribunal) that an Insurer's decision to decline a TPD claim

On 11 March, the High Court of Australia delivered its judgment in Taylor v Killer Queen LLC [2026] HCA 5. The judgment marks essentially the final chapter in the long-running trade mark battle between Katie Jane Taylor, an Australian fashion designer trading under the name “Katie Perry”, and Katheryn Hudson, the internationally renowned pop star known as “Katy Perry”. For a history of the dispute and Full Federal Court decision.

While the need for directors' and officers' insurance ("D&") is well understood, there's less understanding of some common problems in ensuring adequate coverage. In this article we'll look at recent cases which clarified liability for defence costs, and allocation of losses where a claim involves both insured and uninsured losses.

The phrase "consequential loss" is very commonly used in exclusion and limitation of liability clauses.

Recent case guides when litigation funding will be grandfathered for the purposes of the regulation of MIS regime.

Article discusses the Redress Scheme that provides avenue for redress for survivors of institutional sexual abuse.

The Court of Appeal of the NSW Supreme Court has found that emailing a link to documents stored in an online repository did not constitute valid service under the Building and Construction Industry (Security of Payment) Act 2021 (WA), and that strict compliance with the Act’s one-business-day service requirement was necessary to establish jurisdiction.