High Court: June 2025
Precedent-setting cases on group costs orders as a rationale for transferring proceedings, native title extinguishment and unlawful detention.
Precedent-setting cases on group costs orders as a rationale for transferring proceedings, native title extinguishment and unlawful detention.
Precedent-setting cases on the in-house lawyer rule, injunctions by unlawful non-citizens and NSCOs for the not guilty by mental impairment.
A divided High Court has handed down a controversial decision that touches on fundamental principles in trust law and creates practical issues.
The question of whether law firms can recover costs for employed solicitors representing them has been settled, but several new questions abound.
Commonwealth v Yunupingu has exploded native title doctrine. Understand the context and reasoning behind the watershed decision.
Precedent-setting cases on fiduciary duties for successor trustees, equitable estoppel and judicial immunity.
Damages for psychiatric injuries arising from a breach of an employment contract are now available and policies can be incorporated into contracts.
Precedent-setting cases on the constitutional concept of punishment and the nature of property in the context of pooling orders for wound up entities. By TASMAN…
Precedent-setting cases on churches’ vicarious liability for their priests in child abuse cases and legal incapacity. By VINCENT BARRY.
Precedent-setting cases on private judicial meetings, statutory conditions precedent and public interest immunity. By TASMAN ASH FLEMING.
Precedent-setting cases on duties to avoid economic loss, expert evidence and standards of interlocutory appeals. By TASMAN ASH FLEMING.
The High Court considers criminal liability for bodies politic, the effect of parole on sentencing and foreign state immunity. BY TASMAN ASH FLEMING
The High Court considers jurisdictional error, materiality and statutory construction in the context of decisions by migration officials. BY DR MICHELLE SHARPE