The Federal Court of Australia in CPJ17 v Minister for Immigration and Border Protection [2018] FCA 1242 has held that barristers engaged on a limited ‘direct access’ brief are not required to comply with r 4.03 of the Federal Court …
A majority of the New South Wales Court of Appeal in Pentelow v Bell Lawyers Pty Ltd [2018] NSWCA 150 (“Pentelow”) has held that the so-called ‘Chorley exception’, a rule of practice which entitles a self-represented litigant who is a …
The question of whether there had been a valid exercise of an option for the purchase of certain real property was recently addressed by Slattery J of the Supreme Court of New South Wales in Hills Central Pty Limited v …
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Introduction The High Court of Australia sitting as the Court of Disputed Returns in Re Gallagher [2018] HCA 17 has provided further details about the “constitutional imperative”, the implicit qualification or exception to the operation of s 44(i) of the …
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The New South Wales Court of Appeal (Leeming JA, White JA and Barrett AJA) in Pi v Zhou (No 4) [2018] NSWCA 87 has dismissed an application for an extension of time within which to review a decision of Payne …