INTRODUCTION - The Victorian Supreme Court is fast becoming the jurisdiction of choice for class actions. This is because on 1 July 2020 the Victorian Supreme Court was given power to make orders permitting a law firm to be...more
In Commissioner of Taxation v PricewaterhouseCoopers [2022] FCA 278, the Federal Court of Australia has found that the majority of 116 sample documents considered by it were not subject to legal professional privilege and...more
International arbitration inevitably involves different parties from different jurisdictions. The parties, their counsel, the seat, the arbitrators, the governing law of the contract, the setting of the relevant facts, and...more
Australia’s premier international dispute resolution institution, the Australian Centre for International Commercial Arbitration (ACICA), released its 2021 Edition of its Arbitration Rules (2021 Rules) earlier this year. The...more
While dispute resolution clauses may be straightforward for domestic franchise agreements as a result of the Franchising Code, dispute resolution clauses can be one of the most neglected provisions in international master...more
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Under s 8 of the Uniform Commercial Arbitration Act (CAA)1 a 'court' is required to stay proceedings before it if the parties have already agreed to have their dispute referred to arbitration. Recently, the Victorian Court of...more
On 10 February 2014, the Federal Government announced its intention to appoint Justice Dyson Heydon AC QC as the Royal Commissioner to inquire into trade union governance and corruption. The Royal Commission is a public...more