
COVID-19: SMEs Commercial Leases and Lending Guarantee Scheme
By Justin Marschke and Rupert Copeman-Hill, Tucker & Cowen Solicitors, Brisbane. In late March, the National Cabinet determined that short-term intervention ...

COVID-19 Changes to Safe Harbour Regime
The rapid change to business conditions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has seen a profound impact on the ...

COVID-19 Claiming under insurance
Business interruption or industrial special risk insurance policies may not respond to business losses caused in the recent COVID-19 outbreak, ...

Franchise Update
By David Schwarz, & Brent Weston, Tucker & Cowen, Solicitors, Brisbane. Recap of the regulatory landscape Commercial arrangements classed as ‘franchise agreements’ ...

Beware foreign investments in your client’s business
By Richard Cowen & Alex Nase, Tucker & Cowen, Solicitors, Brisbane. Kadam v MiiResorts Group 1 Pty Ltd (No 5) [2018] FCA ...

Good Faith in Contracts
By Paul Armit & Scott Hornsey, Tucker & Cowen, Solicitors, Brisbane. The recent case of Lien & Anor v Clontarf Residential Pty ...

How the “Ipso Facto” Reforms affect your business
By Robert Tooth & Ben Nearhos, Tucker & Cowen, Solicitors, Brisbane. On 1 July 2018, the “ipso facto reforms” under the Treasury Laws ...

Courts do not have the power to quash adjudicator’s decisions for any non-jurisdictional errors of law
By Richard Cowen & James Morgan, Tucker & Cowen, Solicitors, Brisbane. The High Court of Australia recently held that courts do ...

How the new Security of Payment laws will impact the building and construction industry
By Richard Cowen & James Morgan, Tucker & Cowen, Solicitors, Brisbane. On 1 July 2018, chapter 3 (“BIF/3”) of the new ...

Insolvency Law changes and what you need to know
By Justin Marschke, Tucker & Cowen, Solicitors, Brisbane. The Insolvency Law Reform Act 2016 (Cth) made changes to the personal and corporate insolvency ...