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In a decision of interest for strata law practitioners, this week the NSW Supreme Court (Elkaim J) published its decision in Perpetual Corporate Trust Ltd v Owners Corporation SP6534; El Khouri v Owners Corporation SP6534 [2024] NSWSC 173, concerning...
We are pleased to congratulate our Junior Clerk, Casey Ashton, on attaining 10 years of service at Banco Chambers. For 10 years Casey has been attending to important day to day Chambers operations including ensuring our kitchens and photocopiers copiers...
In significant news for competition law practitioners, today the Australian Competition Tribunal (comprised of The Hon Justice Halley, Dr J Walker and Ms D Eilert) granted authorisation to ANZ Bank’s proposed $4.9 billion acquisition of Suncorp...
This week Chambers & Partners released its guides to the Australian Bar. Banco Chambers was ranked as a Band 1 set for Dispute Resolution in Australia with commentary describing Banco as “the list you go to: high-quality and responsive.” On the individual...
This week the High Court of Australia heard an important appeal concerning whether the offence and penalty provisions of a law of the Northern Territory apply to a Commonwealth Body. The case, Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority v Director of National...
The High Court of Australia has determined a notable issue concerning the extra territorial application of the ACL’s unfair contract provisions to a contract made outside of Australia. The case, Karpik v Carnival plc [2023] HCA 39, concerned a class...
The Federal Court of Australia has dismissed an application brought by PepsiCo against the Commissioner of Taxation in a case concerning royalties tax and diverted profits tax from $240 million in payments received by PepsiCo entities. The dispute concerned...
We are pleased to announce that Christopher Tran has joined Banco Chambers. Chris was called to the Bar in 2014 in Victoria but is now based in Sydney and accepts briefs nationally. He has a wide ranging trial and appellate practice and has significant...
This week the Full Federal Court published its decision in Ford Motor Company v Capic [2023] FCAFC 179 (Yates, Beach and Downes JJ). At trial, the applicant class members established that Ford vehicles sold between 2010 and 2017 fitted with the defective...