Australian customs brokers are worried about the recent focus on importations potentially containing asbestos. The concern highlights the difficult position of customs brokers. With every piece of information provided to the Depar...

The Victorian Court of Appeal has held in Timbercorp Finance Pty Ltd (In Liquation) v Collins and Tomes [2016] VSCA 128 that parties who participated in the unsuccessful class action against Timbercorp are not precluded from plead...

A June 2016 Australian Border Force report highlighted a worrying 23% error rate on import declarations. What are you doing to review compliance levels? Customs valuation principles In most cases, the customs value of goods will...

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...

We recently saw a transaction where this approach was adopted by a large US-based private equity investor, but we've also seen this trend extend beyond the private equity space. Often, the Australian company will have only one Au...

In a recent alert, we commented on the ability of unfair contract terms legislation to change the basis upon which various industry sectors contract with their customers. Two very recent examples involving the car hire industry...