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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...
Yesterday the High Court delivered a landmark ruling, holding the indefinite detention regime under the Migration Act to be unconstitutional, overturning the Al-Kateb decision. The case, NZYQ v Minister for Immigration, concerned a stateless Rohingya...
In 2008 the High Court published its judgment in Kennon v Spry, which addressed the concept of rights in a discretionary trust as “property” under s79 of the Family Law Act. In 2022 the the Family Court revisited the issue in Woodcock v Woodcock...
Banco Chambers warmly congratulates Ruth Higgins SC who was elected as President of the NSW Bar Association today. Ruth will serve as the 43rd President of the NSW Bar and will lead a Bar Council which also includes Vanessa Whittaker SC and Megan Caristo of...