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To appeal to the District Court, the threshold question for such an appeal is if the appeal involves a question of law.

This is a snapshot of selected judgments by Sidis AJ handed down in the ACT Supreme Court during the 2012 Civil Blitz.

A decision in the Supreme Court of New South Wales challenges the accepted orthodoxy that the applicable date of assessment in a standard form definition total and permanent disablement (TPD)

There are only limited circumstances where an appellate court will alter a primary judge's award for non-economic loss.

When serious allegations are published – intentionally, publicly and to a mass audience – the legal question is immediate and unforgiving: who must justify them? Under Australian defamation law, the answer is not the person defamed. It is the person who chose to publish.

In the absence of specific legislative limitations, a MAS Review Panel has the power to make a decision based on the information before it and give weight to that information in accordance with clinical judgment. The plaintiff sought judicial relief pursuant to Section 69 of the Supreme Court Act 1970 of a decision made by the MAS Review Panel.

The government has released draft legislation on the conduit foreign income measure. The measure will replace the existing foreign dividend account rules and provide tax relief for the distribution of a broader range of foreign income, and implements the government’s decision in response to Recommendation 3.11(1) of the Board of Taxation’s report to the Treasurer on international taxation.

A potential legal minefield still remains around decisions to make employees redundant, for those employers in the federal system with 100 or more employees.

In Hansmar Investments Pty Ltd v Perpetual Trustee Co Ltd (2007) 61 ACSR 321 [2007] NSWSC 103, White J of the Equity Division of the Supreme Court of New South Wales found that a creditor's statutory demand may be issued for a claim for liquidated damages.

The High Court upheld the RTA's appeal in overturning the New South Wales Court of Appeal's judgment in relation to a 14 year old plaintiff who was rendered partially paraplegic when he dived off a bridge in Forster, New South Wales.

The penalty notices before the court did not meet the 'specific' requirement to the standard required by the legislation.

The WikiLeaks founder has spent another year in prolonged isolation waiting.

Swashplate Pty Ltd v Liberty Mutual Insurance Co (trading as Liberty International Underwriters) [2020] FCAFC 137 (Federal Court of Australia, Full Court).

A recent NSW District Court decision provided recreational and adventure operators with more guidance and protection.

Australian Executor Trustees Limited ("AET") was the trustee for holders of debentures issued by Provident Capital Limited ("Provident") under the provisions of Chapter 2L of the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) (the "Act").

It is important to consider costs in how a defence is conceived and run from the commencement of a case.

Hayne faces his third trial, on charges originally laid in 2018, so questions arise as to the perpetuity of proceedings.