Category: Commercial Disputes

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has found a North Sydney Solicitor guilty of advising eight of his clients engage in activity which breached the Corporations Act. This significant case sends a warning to all business advisors....

Macquarie Bank's recorded phone calls used as evidence against them What would you do if faced with a call on a margin loan of $160,000 from Macquarie Bank and given three working days to pay it? Over the past 12 months this has became a common...

Solicitor resigns and fights against signed employment agreement In recent years the pros and cons of employment contracts have been hotly debated. When a solicitor in a country town resigned from his firm to work for another he was accused of being in...

Breach of employment contract turns into an expensive lesson for employee When you hire someone to do a job it is natural to expect the employee to do their job and to be loyal to their employer and not help a direct competitor. Failure to do this...

The situation – theft of intellectual property An Australian company had an extremely well developed website. Hundreds of hours had gone into its development in optimising design and content to inform and direct new business. A competitor was...

Can a strata Body Corporate recover all of the legal costs it incurs when chasing outstanding strata levies? It is quite common for civil legal action to leave successful plaintiffs out-of-pocket in respect to their legal expenses, even if they obtain...

An interesting article in The Sydney Morning Herald in October 2009 commented on the statistics from Dun & Bradstreet's trade payments analysis.  The article, Business pay up more quickly, said the analysis showed a fall in the payment terms for...

Case forces unprofessional lawyers to lift their game In a decision on 5 August 2009 the High Court significantly revised the guiding principles relating to case management of proceedings brought before the Courts in Australia.  The decision overruled...

It pays to act on overdue accounts Every business needs to manage their cashflow. Overdue accounts can make this hard. This case study demonstrates how bringing in Streeterlaw Sydney Lawyers speeded up the process dramatically. The Pain Aged debt...

Two court cases follow breakdown of a business relationship The first court decision over who was responsible and who was to pay costs was overwritten by the second court decision. Facts behind BATTERHAM v MAKEIG [2010] NSWCA86 (22 April...