This recent decision illustrates that the courts will protect sensitive pricing information and models associated with insurance product pricing. Australian Insurance Holdings Pty Ltd (AIH) successfully sought an interlocutory injunction ...
This recent decision illustrates that the courts will protect sensitive pricing information and models associated with insurance product pricing. Australian Insurance Holdings Pty Ltd (AIH) successfully sought an interlocutory injunction preventing an ex-employee from working for a competitor in certain defined roles.
In disputes over unpaid debts, it is a common debtor strategy to send the creditor a cheque for less than the total amount claimed together with a letter saying that the amount tendered is in full and final settlement of the debt.
Questions of whether embarkation stairs were safe and caused a passenger to fall were not relevant in deciding if an “accident” had occurred in accordance with international air carriers’ liability principles.
It has become commonplace for insurance broking firms to insert “restraint of trade” provisions into employment contracts in an attempt to prevent ex-employees taking “their book” with them to a new employer. A recent New South Wales Supreme Court decision provides useful guidance on the courts’ approach to such clauses.
Following the High Court decision in Bamford, we have reviewed a lot of unit trust deeds and have seen many unit trusts with superannuation funds as unitholders. The danger is that when a superannuation fund holds units in a typical unit trust, there is a significant risk the ATO will
The Paid Parental Leave Bill was passed into law on 17 June 2010 and provides a new paid parental leave scheme for Australian workers. From 1 January 2011 the scheme provides the primary carer of a new-born child (or adopted child) leave for up to 18 weeks at the national
On 3 August 2010 the Civil and Criminal Jurisdiction Reform and Modernisation Amendments Bill 2010 was passed by the Queensland parliament.
A Brisbane gym operator was recently held liable in contract and negligence after a woman slipped and fractured her ankle during a ‘Body Attack’ class.
CGU Insurance Limited v One.Tel Limited
Lenders in New South Wales breathed a sigh of relief earlier this month when the Supreme Court ruled in Bank of Western Australia Ltd v. Primanzon [2010] NSWSC 862 that two part-time commercial property investors could not claim relief under the Contracts Review Act 1980 (NSW) because the loans advanced
Section 84 of the Property Law Act in Queensland provides that a mortgagee may not exercise the power of sale unless a notice under section 84 has been served on the mortgagor and the specified default is not remedied within 30 days from service of the notice.
The Queensland Transport Operations (Road Use Management) Act 1995 has been amended by the Heavy Vehicle Speed Compliance Act with the insertion of a new Chapter 5D in the Act. The new provisions are effective from 1 July 2010 and adopt national reforms in this area, which have been developed
Cooper Grace Ward acknowledges and pays respect to the past, present and future Traditional Custodians and Elders of this nation and the continuation of cultural, spiritual and educational practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
Fast, accurate and flexible entities including companies, self-managed superannuation funds and trusts.