Australia: Sovereign Immunity: Public Sector Government

The case provides clear confirmation of the principles applied in determining whether a duty of care exists and establishing negligence.

These changes introduce additional changes and clarifications to the already sweeping reforms introduced by the Workers Compensation Legislation Amendment Bill 2025.

Public authorities may be liable in private nuisance for construction impacts unless they can prove the interference was reasonable or inevitable.

Its duty of care to road users requires the council to maintain roads by fixing defects in a timely and efficient way.

The appeal is the latest instalment in a dispute concerning legislative reforms in Spain's regulation of renewable energy.

While there were no heroes, villains or shootings in Canberra last Wednesday morning, there was a partial revocation of the immunity from suit previously afforded to solicitors.

On 4 September 2006, the Full Court of the Australian Federal Court handed down judgment in Woolworths Limited v BP plc [2006] FCAFC 132.

Raine & Horne’s recent successful claim in the Supreme Court of New South Wales offers some reassurance and guidance to franchisors about restraint of trade clauses in their franchise agreements.

The "Seretide" war reached the Full Court of the Federal Court in Australia this month. The central issue in the case involved the question of whether two flyers sent to some 14,000 general practitioners in Australia and two advertisements published in "Australian Doctor" magazine relating to Glaxo's "Seretide" combination inhaler were misleading and deceptive or likely to mislead or deceive in contravention of the Australian Trade Practices Act.