OK, we apologise for the clickbait headline, but this is an article about the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth) (the PPSA) – and we know that much of the PPSA is so snooze-worthy that cases concerning its application are recommended by 9 of 10 doctors as emergency substitutes when your prescription sleeping medication runs

We are all used to seeing pop-up warnings when we go to delete electronic documents, although the pop-ups don’t usually warn us about things like “contempt of court” or “abuse of process”.  However, the destruction of documents can have serious consequences in litigation. A recent case in the Supreme Court of New South Wales has confirmed that

Breaking up (so the song tells us) is hard to do.  This proposition is no less true of commercial relationships than it is of personal relationships, which is why difficulties can arise in the enforcement of contractual dispute resolution procedures, such as agreements to arbitrate.  Once a dispute actually arises, one party to the agreement

Confidential information can be used (and misused) in lots of different ways. Disputes about use and misuse often arise following the termination of various kinds of contracts (including employment contracts and franchise contracts) which provide for confidential information to be provided by one party to the contract to the other party. If a party is

What’s better than getting an award of damages to compensate you for your loss?  Well, many things, but “preventing the loss from occurring in the first place” is pretty high up on the list.  It’s for that reason that an early decision which will often have to be made in litigation is whether to seek