practice and procedure

Direct speech evidence after Kane’s Hire and Gan v Xie: did you get the gist?

Courts are highlighting themes of direct speech witness evidence misuse across NSW and Kane’s Hire is being applied and settled more and more.

Preliminary discovery is little understood and rarely used. Andrew Bulley provides guidance on how to avoid a ‘fishing expedition’.

The Federal Court has ruled that legal professional privilege will not always be reliable for protecting third-party reports.