ASIC has in the past issued sample standard forms for different products. In another step along the road towards standardisation, on the 31st May, ASIC released a consultation paper on a new sample Statement of Advice (SOA) for li...

In the matter of Avni v Visy Industrial Plastics Pty Ltd [2016] NSWWCCPD 46 (16 September 2016), the appellant worker was employed by the respondent as a process worker when on the deemed date of 30 March 2005, she sustained an ...

In the District Court of New South Wales, in the matter of McKenzie v Day (No 2) [2016] NSWDC 236, the plaintiff claimed damages for negligence having sustained significant injuries to her lower legs and left elbow when she fell a...

In a decision [Mackenzie v Positive Concepts Pty Ltd & Anon [2016] VSC 259 (19 May 2016)] that graphically illustrates the apparent flexibility of the Limitation of Actions Act 1958 (Vic), at least as far as it applies to pers...

University not culpable for employee’s garden-path fall including recommendations about consumer leases VWA v Monash University [2016] VSC 178 (22 April 2016). Background Late in the evening on 6 October 2010, Janis Lonie, t...

The decision in Allen v Chadwick [2015] HCA 47 concerns the operation and interpretation of Parts 6 and 7 of the Civil Liability Act 1936 (SA) which construct a regime for determining negligence and create a presumption of contri...