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Federal Court gives important judgment affecting corporate trustees and parties to trust deeds.   Introduction The decision of the Federal Court in [...]

UK Supreme Court clarifies who is a "constructive trustee" for the purposes of limitation periods.     The UK Supreme Court in [...]

Federal Court rules that contractual stipulation that damages not adequate remedy not binding on courts.   It is well-established that a party [...]

Federal Court rules that damages may be granted as a remedy in section 181 oppression petitions.   Section 181 of the Companies [...]

Federal Court clarifies commercial contracts unlikely to give rise to fiduciary relationships.   Parties to sophisticated commercial agreements, which are often arrived [...]

Federal Court upholds Quistclose trust in favour of corporate trustee.   The imposition of trusts of a proprietary nature in a purely [...]

Court of Appeal affirms there is no free standing contractual duty of good faith.     "The commercial world bases its transactions [...]

Court of Appeal rules that constructive trust may be imposed to reverse unjust enrichment.   In Westdeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale v Islington London Borough [...]

Federal Court considers effect of suspension of contracts by mutual agreement.   The recent landmark decision of the Federal Court in Yong Toi [...]

Federal Court allows contract-breaker to benefit from its own wrong? In the recent decision of Ritz Garden Hotel (Cameron Highlands) Sdn Bhd v [...]