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An Employer’s Duty of Reasonable Care is not Strict Liability
Legal Directions
August 24, 2017
WR Engineering Pty Ltd ATF WR Engineering Trust v Nickola Jancevski [2017] ACTSC 202 Her Honour Ashford AJ recently considered the…
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JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR EXPECTED: SCOPE OF AUDITOR’S DUTIES – THE APPEAL
Summary of Decision Facts The appellant, Cam & Bear Pty Ltd, was the trustee of a self-managed superannuation fund (the Fund)…
NO GROWTH IN CATEGORIES OF CASES IN WHICH A NON-DELEGABLE DUTY OF CARE IS OWED
In the recent decision in Bettergrow Pty Ltd v NSW Electricity Networks Operations Pty Ltd as trustee for NSW Electricity Networks…
HIGH COURT CONSIDERS RECOVERABLE ECONOMIC LOSS IN THE ‘LOST YEARS’ FOLLOWING DEATH
Publication of Reasons 13 June 2018 Amaca Pty Limited v Latz, Latz v Amaca Pty Limited [2018] HCA 22 Summary In…
APPEAL OUTCOME REMINDS INSURERS TO CONSIDER FULL WORDING & EFFECT IN POLICY CONSTRUCTION
WFI Insurance Ltd v Manitowoq Platinum Pty Ltd [2018] WASCA 89 Background In our Legal Directions dated 1 May 2017, we…
COMPETING GETSWIFT CLASS ACTIONS TOLD TO GET STUFFED
The Australian class action landscape has seen unprecedented growth in the past decade. Part of that growth has been the troubling…