At the end of last year, the High Court of Australia, in Turcinovic v Queensland Building and Construction Commission [2017] HCASL 306, dismissed the builder’s application for special leave to ...
At the end of last year, the High Court of Australia, in Turcinovic v Queensland Building and Construction Commission [2017] HCASL 306, dismissed the builder’s application for special leave to appeal a decision of the Queensland Court of Appeal granting the QBCC the right to summarily recover its insurance payout
Topics discussed: Market value of repossessed commercial vehicle and steps taken to sell vehicle & Increasing a credit card limit where the funds were used for gambling
Chambers & Partners, a prestigious global legal ranking firm based in London, has again included Rocco Russo in its 2018 rankings of leading lawyers in dispute resolution within the Asia-Pacific region.
Just because a liquidator asserts you have received an unfair preference, does not necessarily mean you have or that there are no potential defences available to you.
Topics discussed: Listing a default with credit reporting agencies & Hardship application – superannuation
Instalment contracts for the sale of land in Queensland have traps for unwary vendors.
It is common in construction and commercial leasing transactions for a party to provide an unconditional bank guarantee to secure the performance of their contractual obligations.
It is common for commercial contracts to contain ipso facto clauses, which allow a party to terminate or modify the terms of the contract where the other party experiences an insolvency event. A concern addressed by the Government is that these clauses can prevent a financially distressed company from turning
In a recent case in the District Court of Queensland, a lender failed to prove it had served default notices. The lender was unsuccessful in obtaining summary judgment for the loan debt and possession of the mortgaged property.
The High Court’s recent decision in Ramsay Health Care Australia Pty Ltd v Compton [2017] HCA 28 has confirmed a bankruptcy court can exercise a discretion to go behind the judgment debt where sufficient reason is shown for questioning whether there is a debt due to the petitioning creditor.
In the recent decision of Lane (Trustee), in the matter of Lee (Bankrupt) v Deputy Commissioner of Taxation [2017] FCA 953, Cooper Grace Ward acted for the trustee in bankruptcy, who sought directions from the Court regarding the administration of a trading trust where the bankrupt was the trustee.
The Queensland Court of Appeal has recently handed down the decision of Queensland Building and Construction Commission v Turcinovic [2017] QCA 77, confirming that, once the Queensland Building and Construction Commission has made a payment under a homeowner’s insurance policy, the builder will have very limited grounds on which to
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