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Class Actions and Litigation Funding
Class actions place an enormous burden on corporate Australia and the growth of the country’s sophisticated third party litigation funding market has …
Wording conflict resolved in favour of policyholder
The New South Wales Court of Appeal has resolved a conflict in the provisions of a policy in favour of the policyholder in a decision which emphasises …
Text of the revised Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement released
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has released the final text of the revised Trans-Pacific Partnership. Following the withdrawal of the United …
Wrongful acts do not have to be unintentional for cover to apply
The Full Federal Court has confirmed that loss resulting from a policyholder’s deliberate decision to leave a construction site was a “wrongful act” …
11 States Agree on Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Trans-pacific partnership has been resurrected with 11 Pacific nations reaching agreement in Japan to sign the revised deal, despite the United …
Pre-trial discovery of manufacturing process information for Etanercept biosimilar allowed
In this week’s important decision of Pfizer Ireland Pharmaceuticals v Samsung Bioepis AU Pty Ltd [2017] FCAFC 193, the Full Court of the Federal Court of …
Be specific when it comes to project insurance
A recent decision of the New South Wales Supreme Court reminds us of importance of carefully documenting the intended relationships and hierarchy between …
A Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
The ministers responsible for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) of 11 countries have announced that the core elements of a Comprehensive and …
Policyholder recovers agreed value of loss despite potential for ‘over-compensation’
The NSW Supreme Court has allowed a policyholder to recover an agreed value of loss, notwithstanding that it may have been ‘over-compensated’ for the …
Policyholder recovers costs of ‘voluntary’ remediation works
The NSW Supreme Court has granted coverage to a policyholder for the costs of ‘voluntarily’ remediating accidental damage (contamination) to adjacent …
Inside Construction and Infrastructure
Inside Construction and Infra is Herbert Smith Freehills' magazine for those involved in designing, procuring, building, owning or operating fixed …
One step closer to Australian data breach class actions
The Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Act 2016 (Cth), which received assent on 22 February 2017, proposes a number of amendments to the …
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