Legal Insights 10/12/2024 By Patrick Ibbotson, Alessandro Cowley Goldmate Reversed – The Public Purpose Must Be Authority Specific Transport for NSW acquired part of a property owned by Goldmate Property Luddenham No 1 Pty Ltd
Legal Insights 10/12/2024 By Catherine Dunlop, Dale McQualter, Amber Davis Scope of Principal Contractor safety responsibilities clarified in decision There are some important clarifications on the extent of safety responsibilities for parties in a contractual chain.
Legal Insights 09/12/2024 By Caroline Atkins, Gavan Mackenzie , Daniel Hope & Ava Cadee Preparing for the Caretaker Period The next federal election is due to occur before 17 May 2025.
Legal Insights 09/12/2024 By Melanie Olynyk, Georgia Hunt New VCAT decision in relation to outsourcing under the Privacy and Data Protection Act 2014 (Vic) A recent decision provides clarity and reassurance for the Victorian Government regarding liability under the PDP Act.
Legal Insights 09/12/2024 By Shaun Temby, Christopher Marsh Our top 8 tips for carrying out product recalls We offer our ‘top tips’ for conducting a voluntary product recall.
Legal Insights 09/12/2024 By Wolfgang Hellmann Merger control in Australia to become mandatory From 1 January 2026, the current regime will be replaced by a mandatory pre-merger notification regime.
Legal Insights 04/12/2024 By Angela Wood, Katherine McNaughton What will the changes to the Aged Care Act mean for the sale and purchase of residential aged care homes? In Part 1 of our series, we take a look at how aged care reforms will change how certain processes work.
Legal Insights 03/12/2024 By Ben Miller, Jenny Wong Video evidence in patent cases – weight matters Video demonstration evidence is rare in patent cases in Australia. We explore the pitfalls in the Vald v KangaTech case
Legal Insights 03/12/2024 By Aaron Kloczko and Rachel Herkes How the Court navigates life or death decisions: reflections on recent parens patriae medical treatment cases We explore two cases where the Court exercised its parens patriae jurisdiction to authorise medical treatment of a child
Legal Insights 03/12/2024 By Lucille Scomazzon and Rachel Herkes The LiveBetter case: $1.8m civil penalty for NDIS provider We unpack the learnings from LiveBetter’s $1.8m civil penalty following the death of an NDIS participant
Legal Insights 03/12/2024 By Jenny Wong, Ben Miller Saved by an obvious mistake – ToolGen’s patent amendments ToolGen has successfully amended the claims of its patent application by relying upon an “obvious mistake”.
Legal Insights 03/12/2024 By Damien Wurzel, Steven Tang 8CPA to deliver affordable medicines and Community Pharmacy Programs for Australians We explore the Eighth Community Pharmacy Agreement (8CPA)
Legal Insights 03/12/2024 By Katie Pryor, Ben Miller The Medical Science Co-Investment Plan – what does it mean for medical technology and digital health businesses? We summarise the implications of the Medical Science Co-Investment Plan and related grants for medtech businesses
Legal Insights 03/12/2024 By Angela Wood, Katherine McNaughton and Muireann Morrissey Breaking down the dose – examining the advertisement of weight loss medicines We explore the TGA’s approach to the surge in weight loss medications such as Ozempic
Legal Insights 03/12/2024 By Sonia Sharma , Lachlan Patey, John Naoom and Leila Liu Hack to the future: your plan to navigate Australia's new Cyber Security Legislative Package The Parliament passed the Australian Government’s package of legislation.
Legal Insights 03/12/2024 By Aaron Kloczko Watch this space: use of adverse genetic testing results in life insurance to be prohibited We examine the ‘total ban’ on the use of adverse predictive genetic test results in life insurance underwriting.
Legal Insights 03/12/2024 By Angela Wood, Katherine McNaughton Breaking down the dose – understanding the laws regulating advertising medicines in Australia With changes in regulatory activity by the TGA, we summarise the frameworks that apply to advertising medicines
Legal Insights 03/12/2024 By Angela Wood, Katherine McNaughton Breaking down the dose – analysing the advertising of medicinal cannabis In the last 2 years the TGA has issued more than 165 infringement notices for unlawful advertising of medicinal cannabis
Media Releases 02/12/2024 Maddocks welcomes leading consumer law and competition lawyer Dr Wolfgang Hellmann as a new Partner Dr Wolfgang Hellmann started as a new Partner in December 2024
Thought Leadership 28/11/2024 Major Projects Guidance Maddocks and Ernst & Young deliver a comprehensive projects guidance for Victorian Local Government