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Brady King Appeal: Full Federal Court decides GST issue in favour of developer

The status quo has been restored for property developers and the use of the ‘valuation method’ when determining GST on future developments following the Full Federal Court’s decision in Brady King Pty Ltd v FCT on 26 June 2008. More...

July 2008

New technology partner for Middletons

Middletons is pleased to announce the promotion of Dudley Kneller to the partnership. Dudley is a technology lawyer who has built his practice around complex international IT and business process outsourcing projects. More...

July 2008

Alan Bond shut out of claims against Paul Barry: Lessons for media in trade practices laws

On 23 June 2008 the Full Court of the Federal Court delivered judgment in Bond v Barry [2008] FCAFC 115, and in doing so finally ended Alan Bond's attempt at suing freelance journalist Paul Barry, News Limited and others for misleading and deceptive conduct under the Trade Practices Act, in respect of an article written by Barry and published by News in mid-2007. More...

June 2008

Workplace Relations and Safety National Employment Standards

On Monday, 16 June 2008, the Federal Government released its proposed new National Employment Standards (NES). The NES have been revised in light of public submissions received in response to the NES Discussion Paper issued earlier this year. More...

June 2008

Copyright claim brought by Inform Design & Construction against Boutique Homes dismissed

The Federal Court has today dismissed a copyright infringement proceeding commenced by Inform Design & Construction Pty Ltd against Boutique Homes Melbourne Pty Ltd. The 2 year case centred around an allegation by Inform that Boutique’s Villa View design substantially reproduced and therefore infringed Inform's copyright in 2 of its house designs known as the Urban and Seasons. More...

June 2008

Jessica Estates case overturned

Further to our article entitled 'Beware when interpreting restrictive covenants', published in the March 2008 edition of the Property Legal Update, the New South Wales Court of Appeal (Court of Appeal) has overturned the decision of Jessica Estates Pty Ltd v Lennard [2007] NSWSC 1175 and 1434 (Supreme Court). More...

June 2008



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